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2006-03-31, 5:11 pm

1: Int J Med Microbiol. 2006 Mar 7; [Epub ahead of print] Related
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Abducens nerve palsy following a tick bite: A case report.

Frimmel S, Lobermann M, Buxton B, Reisinger EC.

Division of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of
Medicine, university of Rostock, Medical School,
Ernst-Heydemann-Strasse 6, D-18055 Rostock, Germany.

Neuromuscular paralysis caused by salivary proteins of ticks is a
well-known complication after tick bites in Australia, North America,
and South Africa. Symptoms may include general weakness, difficulty
walking, ascending paralysis, and bulbar paralysis with diplopia,
culminating in respiratory failure. In Europe, toxin-mediated paralysis
has rarely been noted. We report a case of cranial nerve paralysis with
delayed onset after a tick bite in northern Germany.

PMID: 16527539 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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