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Volume 17, Number 10—October 2011
Research
Humans Infected with Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi, Russia
Alexander E. Platonov, Ludmila S. Karan, Nadezhda M. Kolyasnikova, Natalya A. Makhneva, Marina G. Toporkova, Victor V. Maleev, Durland Fish, and Peter J. Krause
Table 2
Patient characteristics and infection timeline for Borrelia spp. infections, by species*
| Borrelia species | No. patients infected | Infection timeline, median no. days (IQR) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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