Prolonged IgM Response within the Central Nervous System in Lymphocytic Meningoradiculitis (Bannwarth's Syndrome)

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To the Editor: A great variety of symptoms from the peripheral as well as the central nervous system may occur in infection with the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease,1 and related European borrelia strains that produce lymphocytic meningoradiculitis (Bannwarth's syndrome).2 Therefore, adequate serologic studies may not always follow, and cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities that occur in this disorder are important to define, especially since penicillin treatment has recently been shown to be beneficial.3 We have followed cerebrospinal fluid variables in five consecutive previously healthy patients 28 to 73 years of age (median, 68) with radicular or facial-nerve . . .