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Volume 25, Number 4—April 2019
Dispatch

Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, B. miyamotoi, and Powassan Virus in Residents Bitten by Ixodes Ticks, Maine, USA

Robert P. Smith, Susan P. EliasComments to Author , Catherine E. Cavanaugh, Charles B. Lubelczyk, Eleanor H. Lacombe, Janna Brancato, Hester Doyle, Peter W. Rand, Gregory D. Ebel, and Peter J. Krause
Author affiliations: Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, USA (R.P. Smith, Jr., S.P. Elias, C.B. Lubelczyk, E.H. Lacombe, P.W. Rand); Lincoln Health, Damariscotta, Maine, USA (C.E. Cavanaugh); Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (G.D. Ebel); Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (J. Brancato, P.J. Krause); Yale School of Medicine, New Haven (H. Doyle, P.J. Krause)

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Table 2

Seropositivity of tick-bitten persons for Borrelia burgdoferi, B. miyamotoi, and Powassan virus, Maine, USA, 2014*

Pathogen, antibody test result No. (%) database persons, n = 190 No. (%) family of database persons, n = 40 No. (%) total, n = 230
B. burgdorferi
Positive 26 (13.7) 6 (15.0) 32 (13.9)
Negative
 164 (86.3)
 34 (85.0)
 198 (86.1)
B. miyamotoi
Positive 4 (2.1) 2 (5.0) 6 (2.6)
Negative
 186 (97.9)
 38 (95.0)
 224 (97.4)
B. burgdorferi/B. miyamotoi
Positive 2 (1.1) 0 2 (0.9)
Negative
 190 (98.9)
 40 (100.0)
 228 (99.1)
Powassan virus
Positive 0 1 (2.5) 1 (0.4)
Negative 190 (100.0) 39 (97.5) 229 (99.6)

*Database persons refers to tick-bitten persons who had submitted their ticks to a tick identification program in Maine. Family of database persons were database person family members who reported being bitten by a blacklegged tick during 2009–2013.

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