Multilocus sequence typing of clinical Borreliella afzelii strains: population structure and differential ability to disseminate in humans

Table 2 Clinical manifestations associated with the clinical strains included in this study

Sample	Clinical manifestations	Strains typed in this study	Strains typed by Coipan et al. [15]	Strains extracted from the MLST database	Total
Skin biopsy	EM	43	98	49	190
	MEM	7	–	–	7
	ACA^a	8	26	7	41
	BL^a	3	–	5	8
	Morphea	–	–	1	1
	Unspecified	–	–	35	35
CSF	NB^a	–	–	20	20
Joints	LA^a	1	–	1	2
Muscle biopsy	Fasciitis^a	1	–	–	1
Blood	Bacteremia^a	–	–	1	1
Unknown	–	–	–	2	2
Disseminated manifestations^a		20	26	34	80
Total		63	124	121	308

Abbreviations: EM, erythema migrans; MEM, multiple erythema migrans; ACA, acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans; NB, neuroborreliosis; BL, borrelial lymphocytoma
^aManifestations corresponding to a disseminated form of Lyme borreliosis

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