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Bilateral facial palsy: Epstein-Barr virus, not Lyme disease.

Diedler J, Rieger S, Koch A, Parthé-Peterhans S, Schwaninger M

Department of Neurology, Institute of Hygiene, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Jennifer.Diedler@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Bilateral facial palsy is frequently linked with lyme disease. We report a patient with bilateral facial palsy due to Epstein-Barr virus infection but with Borrelia burgdorferi IgM in serum caused by polyclonal B-lymphocyte stimulation.

Published 25 August 2006 in Eur J Neurol, 13(9): 1029-30.
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