Table 1. Geographical distribution of B. burgdorferi ospC major groups found in skin of Lyme disease patients from New York and Wisconsin.

	ospC major groupsb
Location	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	T	U	X	Y	B3	E3	F3	TOTAL
New Yorka	46	37	2	4	14	9	14	13	20	3	86	0	11	17	1	2	11	0	0	0	1	0	291
Wisconsin	2	2	2	4	2	4	3	12	2	1	4	5	2	3	3	2	3	1	1	4	1	2	65
Total	48	39	4	8	16	13	17	25	22	4	90	5	13	20	4	4	14	1	1	4	2	2	356

^aNew York data (n = 290) based on [19]. One additional isolate (E3) was added from [13].

^b ospC major group designation according to [8], [12]. ospC major groups X and Y were not published at the time this article was written but are available in GenBank under accession numbers HM047876 and HM047875 respectively.