Table 4.
Number (%) of patients with tick-borne encephalitis who had incomplete recovery at follow-up visits according to absence or presence of proven or possible borrelial co-infection.
| All n = 684 |
TBE n = 382 |
TBE-LB n = 62 |
TBE-Bb n = 240 |
p Value a | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 months post-hospitalization | 363/652 (55.7) | 202/361 (56.0) | 32/59 (54.2) | 129/232 (55.6) | 0.9698 |
| 6 months post-hospitalization | 170/462 (36.8) | 82/220 (37.3) | 16/50 (32.0) | 72/192 (37.5) | 0.757 |
| 12 months post-hospitalization | 95/294 (32.3) | 44/136 (32.4) | 10/30 (33.3) | 41/128 (32.0) | 0.991 |
| At final evaluable visit | 219/653 (33.5) | 129/361 (35.7) | 15/59 (25.4) | 75/233 (32.2%) | 0.257 |
Abbreviations: TBE, tick-borne encephalitis; TBE-LB, proven co-infection with B. burgdorferi s.l.; TBE-Bb, possible co-infection with B. burgdorferi s.l. Overall p value for comparisons between groups was estimated using the normal approximation with continuity correction: p < 0.05 was considered significant.