Volume 17, Number 10—October 2011
Research
Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia
Table 2
Patient characteristics and infection timeline for Borrelia spp. infections, by species*
Borrelia species | No. patients infected | Infection timeline, median no. days (IQR) | ||||
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Patient characteristics | Tick bite to symptom onset | Symptom onset to hospital admission | ||||
Median age, y (range) | Male sex, no. (%) | |||||
B. miyamotoi | 46 | 54 (21–77) | 24 (52) | 15 (12–16) | 1 (1–2) | |
B. garinii | 21 | 58 (18–87) | 11 (52) | 10 (7–13)† | 5 (2–9)† | |
B. burgdorferi | 92 | 50 (14–79) | 49 (53) | NA | NA
*IQR, interquartile range; NA, not available. *IQR, interquartile range; NA, not available. *IQR, interquartile range; NA, not available. *IQR, interquartile range; NA, not available. |
*IQR, interquartile range; NA, not available.
†p<0.001 in comparison with patients with B. miyamotoi infection.