Table 4.
No. positive antigensa | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Sum |
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LYME DISEASE | ||||||||||||
Early Lyme EM Acute | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 40 |
Early Lyme EM Convalescent | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 38 |
Carditis | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Neuroborreliosis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
Sum | 11 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | |
NON-LYME DISEASE | ||||||||||||
Fibromyalgia | 21 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
Mononucleosis | 17 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Multiple sclerosis | 16 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
Periodontitis | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Rheumatoid arthritis | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
Syphilis | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Healthy endemic | 84 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 |
Healthy non-endemic | 94 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 |
No Lyme disease patient samples scored positive for 11–12 antigens.
The bold numbers signify no. of antigens required for a positive score.