References
- Berglund J, Eitrem R, Ornstein K, Lindberg A, Ringnér Å, Elmrud H, et al. An epidemiologic study of Lyme disease in southern Sweden. N Engl J Med 1995; 333: 1319–24.
- Keane-Myers A, Nickell P. Role of IL-4 and IFN-γ in modulation of immunity to Borrelia burgdorferi in mice. J Immunol 1995; 155: 2020–8.
- Coyle PK, Kaufmann MA. Lyme neuropathy. In: Latov N, et al., eds. Immunology and infectious diseases of the peripheral nerves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 308–18.
- Noppa L. Membrane proteins and periplasmic flagella of Borrelia spirochetes [thesis]. Umeå, Sweden: Department of Microbiology, Umeå University, 1998.
- Bunikis J. Surface antigens on Lyme disease Borrelia [thesis]. Umeå, Sweden: Department of Microbiology, Umeå University, 1995.
- Hansen K, Hindersson P, Pedersen NS. Measurement of antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi flagellum improve serodiagnosis in Lyme disease. J Clin Microbiol 1988; 26: 338–46.
- Bøyum A. Isolation of mononuclear cells and granulocytes from human blood. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1968; 21 ((Suppl)): 77–89.
- Forsberg P, Ernerudh J, Ekerfelt C, Roberg M, Vrethem M, Bergström S. The outer surface proteins of Lyme disease Borrelia spirochetes stimulate T cells to secrete interferongamma (IFN-gamma): diagnostic and pathogenic implications. Clin Exp Immunol 1995; 101: 453–60.
- Ekerfelt C, Ernerudh J, Bunikis J, Vrethem M, Aagesen J, Roberg M, et al. Compartmentalization of antigen specific cytokine responses to the central nervous system in CNS borreliosis: Secretion of IFN-γ predominates over IL-4 secretion in response to outer surface proteins of Lyme disease Borrelia spirochetes. J Neuroimmunol 1997; 79: 155–62.
- Ekerfelt C, Forsberg P, Svenvik M, Roberg M, Bergström S, Ernerudh J. Asymptomatic Borrelia seropositive individuals display the same incidence of Borrelia specific interferongamma (IFN-γ)-secreting cells in blood as patients with clinical Borrelia infection. Clin Exp Immunol 1999; 115: 498–502.
- Magnarelli LA, Anderson JF, Barbour AG. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for Lyme disease: reactivity of subunits of Borrelia burgdorferi. J Infect Dis 1989; 159: 43–9.
- Bergström S, Sjöstedt A, Dotevall L, Kaijser B, Ekstrand-Hammarström B, Wallberg C, et al. Diagnosis of Lyme borre- liosis by an enzyme immunoassay detecting immunoglobulin G reactive to purified Borrelia burgdorferi cell components. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1991; 10: 422–7.
- Garcia-Monco JC, Benach JL. Lyme Neuroborreliosis. Ann Neurol 1995; 37: 691–702.
- Berglund J, Eitrem R. Tick-borne borreliosis in the archipelago of southern Sweden. Scand J Infect Dis 1993; 25: 67–72.