Patient characteristics | Number |
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Asymptomatic non-Lyme (healthy volunteers) | 117 |
Symptomatic non-Lyme patients (non-Lyme patients in infectious disease clinic) | 3 |
Untreated, clinical diagnosis of LB (positive diagnosis of Lyme disease with EM rash) | 24 |
Antibiotic treatment for a clinical diagnosis of LB, Arthritis Pos, EM Neg (positive diagnosis of Lyme disease with arthritis symptoms) | 6 |
EM rash present at the time of urine collection during the treatment course | 10 |
Post-treatment with alleviation of symptoms (converted to EM Neg) | 8 |
Patients being worked up for chronic or recurrent LB with negative or inconclusive serology | 100 |