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Several treatment modalities are suggested for systemic scleroderma, but no treatment has yet been found to alter the overall course of the disease. This report describes a 61\u2010year\u2010old woman with Raynaud's phenomenon, nail\u2010fold changes and circulating anticentromere antibodies, who showed an abrupt onset of erythemas and doughy swellings involving the face and upper trunk, followed by thickening and induration of the skin mimicking diffuse systemic scleroderma. Laboratory tests including enzyme\u2010linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), immunoblot and urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) showed an infection with <jats:italic>B.\u00a0burgdorferi sensu lato<\/jats:italic> that was successfully treated with intravenous ceftriaxone, an antibiotic recommended for Lyme borreliosis. Fourteen days after the end of treatment the skin was no longer stiff and indurated and had returned to its normal predisease state. 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