Prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in Ticks and Serological and Clinical Outcomes in Tick-Bitten Individuals in Sweden and on the Åland Islands

• Anders Lindblom,

  Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Center of Clinical Research, Dalarna, Falun, Sweden

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• Katarina Wallménius,

  Affiliation Unit of Clinical Bacteriology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Johanna Sjöwall,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Linda Fryland,

  Affiliation Clinical Immunology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Peter Wilhelmsson,

  Affiliations Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Medical Services, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköpng, Sweden

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• Per-Eric Lindgren,

  Affiliations Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Medical Services, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköpng, Sweden

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• Pia Forsberg,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Kenneth Nilsson

  * E-mail: kenneth.nilsson@medsci.uu.se

  Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Unit of Clinical Bacteriology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Center of Clinical Research, Dalarna, Falun, Sweden

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