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In his 1988 article, Clinical pathologic correlations of Lyme disease by stage, noted Lyme disease researcher Alan Steere observed, [...] the perivascular lymphoid infiltrate in clinical myositis does not differ from that seen in polymyositis or dermatomyositis.t is also a type of autoimmune connective tissue disease. It is related to polymyositis and inclusion body myositis. There is a form of this disorder that strikes children, known as juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM).
Lyme Disease. As the most common tick-borne infection in the USA, lyme disease manifests with clinical symptoms as early as one week to several months after bacterial infection. Characteristic clinical manifestations include erythema migrans, cardiac and neuromuscular abnormalties, and arthralgias.lso dermatomyositis has been diagnosed in an immunosupressed patient with seronegative lyme disease with positive anti Jo 1 autoantibodies and PCR testing for B. burgdorferi. Less commonly, dermatomyositis has been described with acute lyme infection (Horowitz et al. ), in similarity to our case presentation.