Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine |
2011
Abstract
The study has been performed on the proof of anti-neural antibodies in patients with early form of neuroborreliosis (NB). The presence of anti-ganglioside and anti-myelin associated glykoprotein (MAG) antibodies were tested in serum by the commercial western-blotting kits.
Forty serum samples from 38 patients were examined (17 patients with facial palsy, 12 Bannwarth's syndrome, 4 multiple cranial neuritis, 5 other radiculopathies), but only one sample was found positive (for anti-GM3 antibodies). It could be concluded, that anti-ganglioside and anti-MAG antibodies are only sparsely present in the early NB.