Case 32-2020: A 63-Year-Old Man with Confusion, Fatigue, and Garbled Speech

N Engl J Med. 2020 Oct 15;383(16):1578-1586. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2004996.

Authors

Shibani S Mukerji¹, Kevin L Ard¹, Pamela W Schaefer¹, John A Branda¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of Neurology (S.S.M.), Medicine (K.L.A.), Radiology (P.W.S.), and Pathology (J.A.B.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Neurology (S.S.M.), Medicine (K.L.A.), Radiology (P.W.S.), and Pathology (J.A.B.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston.

PMID: 33053289
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2004996

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Borrelia / genetics
Borrelia / isolation & purification*
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain / pathology
Cerebral Infarction / diagnostic imaging
Cerebral Infarction / etiology
Cerebrospinal Fluid / microbiology
Confusion / etiology
Diagnosis, Differential
Fatigue / etiology
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Relapsing Fever / complications
Relapsing Fever / diagnosis*
Relapsing Fever / microbiology
Speech Disorders / etiology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Supplementary concepts

Borrelia miyamotoi