Systematic review of Lyme disease in Turkey
Makaleler > Derleme · 2019
Yazarlar: UĞUR ÖNAL, Hüseyin Aytaç ERDEM, Ayse Uyan Onal, Oğuz Reşat SİPAHİ
Tropical Doctor, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, Wos, 2019, cilt 49, ss 165-170
Özet
A systematic review was conducted with the aim of describing the demographical data, features and outcomes of patients with Lyme disease (LD), reported from Turkey. Three international database (electronic PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus) and two national database (Ulakbim and Turkmedline) searches were performed using the following keywords (['Lyme' or 'Borrelia burgdorferi' or 'Borrelia' or 'Borreliosis'] and 'Turkey [and/country]'). National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNNDS) of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria were used for classification. A PRISMA-based algorithm was used for systematic review. There were a total of 75 LD cases in 36 different reports. Studies related to LD are confined to case reports. We believe that LD is an important healthcare problem in Turkey and to our knowledge this is the first systematic review from this country.