期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2009
卷号：16
期号：02
页码：257-261
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Forestry workers are a professional group particularly exposed to tick-borne infections; however, continuous monitoring of anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies in this group enables faster diagnosis and more effective treatment for borreliosis. A group of 1,155 forestry workers from six forest inspectorates in southern Poland were exam-ined with the immunoenzymatic method (ELISA test). The general level of anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies was 12.8% in IgM class, and 25% in IgG class. Markedly more seropositive results were found in the group of fieldworkers (13.8% – IgM and 25.0% – IgG) than in office workers (10.0% – IgM and 13.7% – IgG). The highest proportions of infections both in IgM and IgG class (17.4% and 34.8%, respectively) were recorded in the group of persons over 50 years of age, the lowest – in the group of workers younger than 30 (IgM – 13.0%, IgG – 14.1%). Significant differences in the level of seropositive results in IgG class were related to the workers' gender – in women the percentage was 9.8%, in men – 28.1%. It was found that in the studied region of southern Poland, consid-ered to be non-endemic, borreliosis occurs as a health risk to forestry workers
