Table 3.

Correlation between selected variables in patients with culture-confirmed HGA or Lyme disease (erythema migrans)

Variablea	Culture-confirmed HGA(n = 44)		Lyme disease (n = 62)
	Rho	P value	Rho	P value
Age with
No. of symptoms	−0.004	0.980	−0.148	0.250
Days of illness to presentation	−0.086	0.580	0.181	0.159
Initial temp	0.276	0.094	0.025	0.845
White blood cell count	−0.095	0.548	−0.287	0.025
Lymphocyte count	−0.240	0.135	−0.290	0.023
Platelet count	−0.143	0.372	−0.334	0.013
AST level	0.150	0.369	0.084	0.519
White blood cell count with
Platelet count	0.407	0.008	0.435	0.001
Days of illness to presentation	0.087	0.584	0.068	0.604
No. of symptoms	−0.290	0.062	−0.110	0.398
Initial temp	0.010	0.955	−0.012	0.929
AST level	−0.178	0.286	−0.071	0.588
Platelet count with
Days of illness to presentation	−0.027	0.865	0.398	0.003
Initial temp	0.001	0.994	−0.421	0.001
AST level	−0.286	0.086	−0.138	0.321
No. of symptoms with
Initial temp	−0.354	0.029	0.245	0.055
Days of illness to presentation	0.389	0.009	−0.098	0.449
AST level	−0.056	0.737	0.299	0.019
Lymphocyte count	0.089	0.586	−0.292	0.022
AST level with
Days of illness to presentation	0.041	0.808	−0.082	0.528
Initial temp	0.070	0.691	0.064	0.626
Lymphocyte count	−0.121	0.475	−0.288	0.026

^aAST, aspartate aminotransferase enzyme.