Table 2. Patient characteristics and infection timeline for Borrelia spp. infections, by species*.
| Borrelia species | No. patients infected | Infection timeline, median no. days (IQR) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient characteristics |
Tick bite to symptom onset | Symptom onset to hospital admission | ||||
| Median age, y (range) | Male sex, no. (%) | |||||
| B. miyamotoi | 46 | 54 (21–77) | 24 (52) | 15 (12–16) | 1 (1–2) | |
| B. garinii | 21 | 58 (18–87) | 11 (52) | 10 (7–13)† | 5 (2–9)† | |
| B. burgdorferi | 92 | 50 (14–79) | 49 (53) | NA | NA | |
*IQR, interquartile range; NA, not available. †p<0.001 in comparison with patients with B. miyamotoi infection.