A comprehensive clinical and laboratory evaluation of 224 patients with persistent symptoms attributed to presumed tick-bite exposure

• Kenneth Nilsson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth Nilsson, Elisabet Skoog

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

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

  Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Clinical Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Medical Sciences, Zoonosis Science Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0093-5725

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• Elisabet Skoog ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth Nilsson, Elisabet Skoog

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Viktor Jones,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Lisa Labbé Sandelin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Communicable Diseases and Disease Control, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5621-5655

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• Christina Björling,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Ester Fridenström,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Marie Edvinsson,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Andreas Mårtensson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, International Maternal and Child Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Björn Olsen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Medical Sciences, Zoonosis Science Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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