LYME BORRELIOSIS - ENDEMIC DISEASE IN CHILDREN OF TERNOPIL REGION.

The aim of research is to estimate the number of LB-infected ticks and to evaluate their LB pathogen's genotype in children with clinical suspicion of Lyme borreliosis in the Ternopil region, Ukraine. In our first part of the study we conducted survey of 795 patients with clinical suspicion of Lyme borreliosis. In our second study we did laboratory analysis of the 795 ticks and 109 blood samples from children that were bitten by a tick.