Lyme borreliosis is a chronic illness caused by tick-transmitted spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Borreliosis can be extremely\r\nthreatening if it is not diagnosed and treated in early stages. Kidneys are not typically involved in the disease. However, in\r\ninfected dogs, Lyme nephritis is present in 5ââ?¬â??10% of cases. It is associated with rapidly progressing renal failure. Histopathological\r\nexamination shows mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis with diffuse tubular necrosis, (Dambach et al. (1997)). In available\r\nliterature, there were reports of humanââ?¬â?¢s glomerulonephritis associated with Borrelia burgdorferi infection. These cases refer to\r\nmembranous and mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (Kirmizis and Chatzidimitriou (2010), ZachÃ?¨aus (2008), and Kirmizis\r\net al. (2004)). In this paper, we present the case of minimal-change disease (MCD) as a result of Borrelia burgdorferi infection.
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