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Clinical and serological characteristics of borreliosis patients and healthy control subjects
| Group | n | No. seropositive | Rha factor | Age (yr)
|
No. with tick bite recall | No. with EMa recall | No. with ACA | No. with NC | No. with arthritis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Range | |||||||||
| Patients | 71 | 71 | 0 | 46.9 | 15–84 | 35 | 18 | 5 | 30 | 36 |
| Controls | 24 | 0 | 0 | 35.4 | 22–42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rh factor, rheumatoid factor; EM, erythema migrans; ACA, acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans; NC, neurological complications (such as meningitis and/or neuropathy).
