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Volume 15, Number 7—July 2009
Research

Tick-borne Relapsing Fever and Borrelia hermsii, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Tom G. SchwanComments to Author , Sandra J. Raffel, Merry E. Schrumpf, Larry S. Webster, Adriana R. Marques, Robyn Spano, Michael Rood, Joe Burns, and Renjie Hu
Author affiliations: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, Montana, USA (T.G. Schwan, S.J. Raffel, M.E. Schrumpf); Mt. Wilson Observatory, Mt. Wilson, California, USA (L.S. Webster); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (A.R. Marques); Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Baldwin Park, California (R. Spano, M. Rood); California Department of Public Health, Ontario, California (J. Burns, R. Hu)

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Table 1

Laboratory test results for 4 dates during illness of patient presumably ill with tick-borne relapsing fever, Los Angeles County, California, USA, 2006

Test Sep 21 Oct 1 Oct 2 Oct 3 Reference range
Hematocrit, % 43.3 42.3 33.7 33.3 39–55
Erythrocyte count, 10–6/mm3 4.6 4.6 3.6 3.6 4.3–5.9
Platelet count/mm3 114 145 127 162 130–450
Leukocyte count/mm3 8.8 11.5 12.8 9.5 4.8–10.8
Neutrophils, % 83 86 64 58 50–70
Band cells, % 5 11 5 0–4
Urea nitrogen, mg/dL 16 10 11 9 6–20
Creatinine, mg/dL 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.5–1.2
Aspartate aminotransferase, U/L 32 25 29 10–42
Alanine aminotransferase, U/L 68 52 55 10–60
Total bilirubin, mg/dL 2.2 1.5 1.2 0–1.5
Alkaline phosphatase, U/L 206 143 140 42–121
Sodium, mg/dL 134 133 138 140 135–145
Potassium, mg/dL 3.1 3.6 4.5 4.3 3.6–5.0
Glucose, mg/dL 133 112 119 107 70–110
Albumin, g/dL 2.7 2.1 2 3.2–5.5

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