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Volume 26, Number 2—February 2020
Dispatch

Surge in Anaplasmosis Cases in Maine, USA, 2013–2017

Susan P. EliasComments to Author , Jessica Bonthius, Sara Robinson, Rebecca M. Robich, Charles B. Lubelczyk, and Robert P. Smith
Author affiliations: Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, Maine, USA (S.P. Elias, R.M. Robich, C.B. Lubelczyk, R.P. Smith, Jr.); University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA (J. Bonthius); Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Augusta, Maine, USA (S. Robinson)

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Table 2

Number of hospitalizations for human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) and Lyme disease, and number of PCR-based tickborne disease panels, 2013–2017*

Year Hospitalizations
 Tick panels†
HGA
 Lyme, 
all ages
All ages 0–17 y 18–64 y >65 y MML-R MML-NE Total MML NorDx All
2013 36 0 9 27 66 0 773 773 0 773
2014 75 0 25 50 55 0 1,479 1,479 0 1,479
2015 68 0 19 49 45 0 1,066 1,066 875 1,941
2016 123 0 42 81 47 596 122 718 5,259 5,977
2017
 119
 0
 24
 95
48
973
 0
 973
 8,184
 9,157
Change 2013–2017 +231% +167% +252% −27% +1,085%

*Hospitalizations are Maine hospital inpatient encounters, provided through the Maine Health Data Organization. HGA, human granulocytic anaplasmosis; MML, Mayo Medical Laboratories.
†Tick panels performed at Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, USA (MML-R); MML, New England, Andover, MA, USA (MML-NE, closed in 2016); and NorDx, Scarborough, ME, USA.

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