[Clinico-epidemiologic characteristics of Lyme disease treated at the Infectious Disease in Novy Sad 1993-1998].

Introduction: Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted by the bite of Ixodes ricinus, registered in all parts of Yugoslavia. Vectors are very active in spring and early summer and the disease has a seasonal distribution. Generally speaking, there are three defined stages of the disease, but some of them can be misdiagnosed or really absent.

[Prediction of progression of suppurative meningitis based on clinical characteristics and cerebrospinal fluid findings at the onset of the disease].

Some factors (sex, age, the way of onset, previous antibiotic therapy, instant of hospitalization in relation to the appearance of initial symptoms) associated with the course of suppurative meningitis prior to the hospitalization have been analyzed and a trial has been made to locate them in the prognosis of the disease progression. At the Clinic of Infective Diseases in Novi Sad during 10 years (1977 to 1987, except 1983) 162 patients with a diagnosed purulent meningitis had been treated. The patients were classified into two groups: a group of 62 patients with complications and a group of 100 patients with an expected progression of the disease.