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Table 3 Data collection and measurements for study participants. General Dutch population and healthy blood donors

From: Ticking on Pandora’s box: a prospective case-control study into ‘other’ tick-borne diseases

 

Baseline

4 weeks

Written information and informed consent

X

 

Baseline characteristics

X

 

Recording of adverse events

X

X

Laboratory measurements

 C6 EIA and confirmatory immunoblot – Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.

X

 

 ELISA and confirmatory VNT - TBEV

X

 

 IFA – Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, Rickettsia SFG

X

 

 Immunofluorescence protein microarray – Borrelia miyamotoi

X

 
  1. For explanation of abbreviations, see the main text