The investigators will evaluate differences in host immune responses (levels of cytokines and chemokines, representative of innate, Th1, and Th17 immune responses) in acute sera from adult patients with solitary or multiple erythema migrans.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
134
Patients were treated with: ceftriaxone intravenously 2 g OD for 14 days or doxycycline orally 100 mg bid for 10 to 14 days or cefuroxime axetil orally 500 mg bid for 14 days or amoxicillin orally 500 mg tid for 14 days
University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia
inflammatory proteins in erythema migrans patients
The inflammatory immune profiles will be assessed using Luminex to measure the expression of cytokines and chemokines representative of innate and adaptive TH1, TH2, TH17, and B cell responses in serum of patients at enrollment (during active infection).
Time frame: at enrollment
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