Pretreatment clinical characteristics of patients with Lyme arthritis.
Characteristic | N = 99 |
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Age, mean (range), yrs | 9.6 (2–18) |
Male/female | 68/31 |
Characteristics of early disease | |
Erythema migrans, no. | 6 |
Flu-like illness, no. | 28 |
Arthritis as presentation, no. | 90 |
Fevers, no. | 30 |
Neurologic involvement, no. | 3 |
Characteristics of arthritis | |
Joint count, median (range) | 1 (1–6) |
Duration of arthritis prior to antibiotic therapy, median (range), wks | 2 (0–52) |