Deficiencies in communication between clinical microbiological laboratories and physicians may impair the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis: A study of the use and application of serology in three neighbouring counties in Sweden

• Marcus Johansson ,

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

  * E-mail: marcus.johansson@rjl.se (MJ); ivar.tjernberg@liu.se (IT)

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Inflammation and Infection, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, National Reference Laboratory for Borrelia and Other Tick-Borne Bacteria, Jönköping, Region Jönköping County, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3425-0700

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• Henrik Hillerdal,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Jönköping, Region Jönköping County, Sweden, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Inflammation and Infection, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Matilda Ljungqvist Lövmar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Clinical Department of Clinical Microbiology, Linköping, Region Östergötland, Sweden

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• Lena Serrander,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

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• Anna J. Henningsson,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Inflammation and Infection, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, National Reference Laboratory for Borrelia and Other Tick-Borne Bacteria, Jönköping, Region Jönköping County, Sweden

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• Ivar Tjernberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marcus.johansson@rjl.se (MJ); ivar.tjernberg@liu.se (IT)

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

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