About the Authors

Ivar Tjernberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ivar.tjernberg@liu.se

Affiliations Department of Clinical Chemistry and Transfusion Medicine, Region Kalmar County, Kalmar, Sweden, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Inflammation and Infection, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Malin Lager

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Borrelia, Department of Clinical Microbiology in Jönköping, Region Jönköping County, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Guro Furset Jensen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Borrelia, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Sørlandet Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, Norway, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Sørlandet Hospital Health Enterprise, Kristiansand, Norway

Randi Eikeland

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Advisory Unit on Tick Borne Diseases, Sørlandet Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, Norway, Faculty of Health and Sports Science, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, ESCMID Study Group for Lyme Borreliosis—ESGBOR, Part of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Basel, Switzerland

Dag Nyman

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ESCMID Study Group for Lyme Borreliosis—ESGBOR, Part of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Basel, Switzerland, The Åland Group for Borrelia Research, Mariehamn, Finland

Lars Brudin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Physiology, Region Kalmar County, Kalmar, Sweden, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Anna J. Henningsson

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ESCMID Study Group for Lyme Borreliosis—ESGBOR, Part of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Basel, Switzerland, National Reference Laboratory for Borrelia and Other Tick-Borne Bacteria, Department of Clinical Microbiology in Jönköping, Region Jönköping County, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: IT reports participation in advisory board and personal fees from Pfizer Inc outside the submitted work. AJH has a collaborative research agreement with Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, USA and Reagena Oy, Toivala, Finland. Remaining authors report no conflict of interest.