ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was the analysis of epidemiology and clinical picture of early Lyme disease-erythema migrans (EM). There was analysed the medical documentation of 307 (126 men and 181 women) patients, who came to Outpatient Clinic of Infectious Diseases with EM in Hajn6wka in years 2004-2009. Most people (54%) lived in Hajnówka district. 51,8% of patients remembered the contact with a tick. The highest incidence of EM cases was observed in July. The average size of erythema was 10,5 cm2. In 59 cases skin lesion was accompanied by such symptoms as: itching, pain and inflammatory infiltration in the skin lesion, pain in muscles and joints, headaches, fever and cold syndroms. The most common localisation of EM were lower limbs (135 people), trunk (68) and upper limbs (29). Time of patients' visit in our Outpatient Clinic from EM notice lasted about 2 months. 6 people from analysed group were reinfected. There was used the month treatment by doxycycline in prevailing cases.
