Registered reasons for encounter (during N = 2619 episodes) | Serological Testing | Positive immunoblot test result | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | %c | N | %c | N | %c | ||
I. General symptoms | |||||||
Fatigue | 458 | 17.5 | 357 | 20 | |||
Malaise | 162 | 6.2 | 89 | 4 | |||
Gastro-intestinal | 74 | 2.8 | 59 | 5 | |||
Respiratory | 39 | 1.5 | 34 | 3 | |||
Other | 233 | 8.9 | 151 | 12 | |||
Total | 966 | 36.9 | 690 | 71.4 | 44 | 6.4 | |
II. Neurological symptoms | |||||||
Headache | 105 | 4.0 | 72 | 6 | |||
Dizziness | 64 | 2.4 | 51 | 4 | |||
Pain with radiation | 50 | 1.9 | 34 | 6 | |||
Numbness | 41 | 1.6 | 26 | 4 | |||
Paresthesia | 47 | 1.8 | 26 | 2 | |||
Other | 96 | 3.7 | 70 | 5 | |||
Total | 403 | 15.4 | 207 | 51.4 | 27 | 13.0 | |
III. Musculoskeletal symptoms | |||||||
Arthralgia | 240 | 9.2 | 120 | 15 | |||
Myalgia | 92 | 3.5 | 61 | 4 | |||
Total | 332 | 12.7 | 181 | 54.5 | 19 | 10.5 | |
IV. Diagnostic and therapeutic requestd | |||||||
Serology request | 196 | 7.5 | 154 | 18 | |||
Referral request | 31 | 1.2 | 15 | 5 | |||
Antibiotics request | 60 | 2.3 | 10 | 1 | |||
Total | 287 | 11.0 | 179 | 62.4 | 24 | 13.4 | |
V. Psychological | |||||||
Fear of Lyme | 434 | 16.6 | 146 | 14 | |||
Other | 27 | 1.0 | 23 | 1 | |||
Total | 461 | 17.6 | 169 | 36.7 | 15 | 8.9 | |
VI. Skin abnormality | |||||||
Possible erythema migrans | 120 | 4.6 | 34 | 6 | |||
Local irritation tick bite | 327 | 12.5 | 33 | 2 | |||
Erythema migrans | 136 | 5.2 | 25 | 7 | |||
Sting bite | 194 | 7.4 | 12 | 0 | |||
Eczema | 35 | 1.3 | 8 | 2 | |||
Dermatomycosis | 65 | 2.5 | 7 | 0 | |||
Other | 203 | 7.8 | 33 | 5 | |||
Total | 1080 | 41.2 | 152 | 14.1 | 22 | 14.5 | |
VII. Recent insect stinga | |||||||
Tick bite | 914 | 34.9 | 121 | 5 | |||
Insect bite | 248 | 9.5 | 36 | 3 | |||
Total | 1162 | 44.4 | 157 | 13.5 | 8 | 5.1 | |
Totalb | 4691 | 179.1 |