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Are Differences in Presentation of Early Lyme Borreliosis in Europe and North America a Consequence of a More Frequent Spirochetemia in American Patients?

2021; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 10; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/jcm10071448

ISSN

2077-0383

Autores

Vera Maraspin, Petra Bogovič, Katarina Ogrinc, Tereza Rojko, Eva Ružić‐Sabljić, Andrej Kastrin, Klemen Strle, Gary P. Wormser, Franc Strle,

Tópico(s)

Dermatological diseases and infestations

Resumo

To assess whether differences in presentation between US and European patients with early Lyme borreliosis are due to the lower rate of spirochetemia in Europe, we compared multiple variables for patients with erythema migrans (EM), restricting the analysis to subjects with a positive blood culture at the time of presentation: 93 US patients infected with

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