Non-specific symptoms and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome in patients with Lyme borreliosis: a prospective cohort study in Belgium (2016–2020)

Table 3 Lyme borreliosis manifestations at inclusion, HUMTICK study, Belgium, 2016–2020

	EM patients (i)	Disseminated/late LB (ii)^c
Baseline	120	15
EM	115	–^a
MEM	5	–
LNB early	–	8
LA	–	2
Carditis	–	4^b
ACA		1
+ Possible (alternative scenario)	5	3
EM	5	–
LNB^c early	–	2
LNB^c late	–	1

EM erythema migrans, MEM multiple erythema migrans, LNB Lyme neuroborreliosis, LA Lyme arthritis, ACA acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans, LB Lyme borreliosis
^aSome patients reported an EM yet no clinical information was available as it was often no longer present at inclusion
^bLA was reported in one carditis patient and unconfirmed LNB (without lumbar puncture) was reported in two out of four carditis patients (including the patient with carditis and LA)
^cNo lumbar puncture performed (n = 2) or only after treatment and negative (n = 1), but patient included by specialist based on clinical symptoms and other laboratory results

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