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Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016
Dispatch

Lyme Disease in Hispanics, United States, 2000–2013

Christina A. NelsonComments to Author , J. Andrew Starr, Kiersten J. Kugeler, and Paul S. Mead
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (C.A. Nelson, K.J. Kugeler, P.S. Mead); University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (J.A. Starr)

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Table 2

Locations with the highest number of estimated cases and incidence of LD among Hispanics, United States, 2000–2013*

Location No. reported cases among Hispanics % Total reported cases with ethnicity information Estimated total no. cases† % Total estimated no. Hispanics with LD No. annual estimated cases/100,000 Hispanics Counties with highest estimated incidence among Hispanics‡
All states 5,473 39.7 13,786 100 0.8
New York 1,825 52.8 3,456 25.1 3.6 Columbia (170.4), Putnam (61.3), Dutchess (47.4)
New Jersey 474 14.2 3,331 24.2 7.6 Sussex (111.4), Hunterdon (106.3), Warren (41.3)
Connecticut 986 50.6 1,950 14.1 14.5 Windham (45.6), New London (30.8), Fairfield (11.9)
Massachusetts 491 36.0 1,364 9.9 7.8 Plymouth (17.3), Norfolk (13.1), Middlesex (8.5)
Pennsylvania 356 28.8 1,238 9.0 6.1 Bucks (18.3), Northampton (16.3), Chester (14.3)
Maryland 253 35.7 708 5.1 5.4 Howard (16.0), Baltimore (14.1), Anne Arundel (8.8)

*LD, Lyme disease.
†After correcting for missing ethnicity data. Calculated as follows: (no. reported cases)/x = (% with ethnicity information)/100, where x is the weighted number of cases.
‡Incidence calculated as number of annual estimated cases in county/100,000 Hispanic residents in county. Only counties with a substantial number of cases were included in this comparison. Seventy-five weighted cases was chosen as the cutoff based on distribution.

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