Table 2. Number of false-positive Borrelia burgdorferi assay results for participants in various relapsing fever studies*.
| Borrelia burgdorferi assay | No. participants seroreactive to B. burgdorferi/no. total (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. miyamotoi (current study)�? | B. hermsii (23) | B. hermsii (24) | B. recurrentis (24) | B. recurrentis (25) | |
| Whole-cell sonicate ELISA | 7/36 (19) | ND | 7/11 (64) | 3/11 (27) | 5�?"7/11 (45�?"64) |
| C6 ELISA | 6/35 (17)�?� | 1/14 (7) | ND | ND | ND |
| Whole-cell sonicate ELISA and Western blot | 4/36 (11) | 2/14 (14) | ND | ND | ND |
*ND, not determined.�?"�? Study participants had no history of Lyme disease within the 2 years before serum was obtained for testing.�?"�?�The quantity of 1 serum sample was insufficient to test.