Table 1.

Frequency of the different OspC types that were cultured from the skin of 200 patients with erythema migrans [17, 18].

OspC type	Number (%)
Total	200 (100 %)
K	73 (36.5 %)
A	38 (19 %)
B	28 (14 %)
I	14 (7 %)
N	13 (6.5 %)
E	13 (6.5 %)
U	9 (4.5 %)
H	5 (2.5 %)
C	2 (1 %)
D	2 (1 %)
F	1 (0.5 %)
G	1 (0.5 %)
M	1 (0.5 %)
J	0 (0 %)
L	0 (0 %)
T	0 (0 %)

Bold font indicates invasive OspC types, comprising 76.5 % of the total cases