Blood Cultures for Patients with Extracutaneous Manifestations of Lyme Disease in the United States | Zendy

John Nowakowski | Zendy; Donna McKenna | Zendy; Robert B. Nadelman | Zendy; Susan Bittker | Zendy; Denise R. Cooper | Zendy; Charles S. Pavia | Zendy; Diane Holmgren | Zendy; Paul Visintainer | Zendy; Gary P. Wormser | Zendy

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Blood Cultures for Patients with Extracutaneous Manifestations of Lyme Disease in the United States

Author(s) -

John Nowakowski,

Donna McKenna,

Robert B. Nadelman,

Susan Bittker,

Denise R. Cooper,

Charles S. Pavia,

Diane Holmgren,

Paul Visintainer,

Gary P. Wormser

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/648076

Subject(s) - medicine , lyme disease , confidence interval , disease , spirochaetaceae , dermatology , borrelia burgdorferi , immunology , antibody

Spirochetemia in US patients with extracutaneous manifestations of Lyme disease is not well documented. In this study, blood culture results were positive for 5 (19.2%; 95% confidence interval, 6.6%-39.4%) of 26 untreated adult patients with extracutaneous manifestations but only for patients with clinical evidence for a short duration of infection.

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