The examinations were made in 165 patients including the analysis of the sedimentation rate (Biernacki), number of leucocytes in 1 mm³, C-reactive protein and blood serum glycosamine. The results imply that with the progress of the disease the serum glycosamine level increases showing a correlation with the disappearance of C-reactive protein (CRP).
Information on some mechanisms of host-parasite interaction has been presented. Considering literature data and author's own clinical and experimental findings attention has been paid to the possible role of lysozyme in non-specific immunity in humans in acute and chronic phase of trichinellosis.
Within 12 years among 21.024 patients hospitalized in the Clinic of Infectious Diseases of the Medical Academy parasitoses were recognized in 485, i.e. 2.3%. The numbers testify to the importance of the problem of parasitoses in that region of Poland. The most frequent parasitoses of the Białystok region are at present giardiasis and taeniasis, most of all in inhabitants of towns, and within the last years also diseases introduced from the tropics - amebiasis, malaria and intestinal trematodosis.
Prevalence of Lyme borreliosis in Europe has been well esablished during the last decade. The highest morbidity in Poland, exceeding 100 cases (100.000) year, was demonstrated in north-estern part of the country. Additional small endemic areas were also described in south-western and central part of the country. Clinical picture of the disease do not differ significantly from observed in other parts of Europe. Lyme borreliosis is characterized with a wide variety of manifestations recognized as typical: erythema migrans, borrelial lymphocytoma, acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans, arthritis, facial palsy, lymphocytic meningitis and cardiac transduction disturbances. However there are also controversial syndroms, that have confinned etiology of Borrelia burgdorferi but only in some cases, such as: morphea sclerodermatous lesions, cardiomyopathy and some neurologic disorders. Diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis is still based on typical signs of the disease and laboratory techniques can not solve clinical doubts.
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