Blood cultures for patients with extracutaneous manifestations of Lyme disease in the United States.

Nowakowski, John; McKenna, Donna; Nadelman, Robert B; Bittker, Susan; Cooper, Denise; Pavia, Charles; Holmgren, Diane; Visintainer, Paul et al. · Clin Infect Dis · 2009

case_series · Level IV

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Abstract

Spirochetemia in US patients with extracutaneous manifestations of Lyme disease is not well documented. In this study, blood culture results were positive for 5 (19.2%; 95% confidence interval, 6.6%-39.4%) of 26 untreated adult patients with extracutaneous manifestations but only for patients with clinical evidence for a short duration of infection.

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