Adaptive and Innate Immune Responsiveness to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Exposed Asymptomatic Children and Children with Previous Clinical Lyme Borreliosis

Table 1

Subject characteristics at 5 years of age.

	Exposed asymptomatic	Previous clinical LB	Controls
	(𝑛=20)	(𝑛=24)	(𝑛=20)
Gender (f/m)	9/11	11/13	9/11
Rural living	7	11	8
Known tick bites	20	24	0
Previous clinical LB
EM	0	22	0
NB, facial nerve palsy	0	5	0
NB, meningitis	0	1	0
Antibiotic treatment for LB	0	24	0
Borrelia IgG antibodies in serum*	20	4	0

Note. The data referred to in the table is given as numbers of children. Some of the children with previous clinical LB presented with several symptoms. 𝑛: number; f: female; m: male; LB: Lyme borreliosis; EM: Erythema migrans; NB: Neuroborreliosis; IgG: immunoglobulin G
*Based on an ELISA (DAKO) kit for IgG antibodies for Borrelia-specific flagella antigen [24].