More than just Borrelia? A study of co-infection and etiology in erythema migrans patients from southernmost Sweden

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Acknowledgments

We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to professor Christine Wennerås and her team at the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden, for performing the CNM and Anaplasma PCR used for this study. Further, we would like to thank the laboratory personnel at the Department of Virus and Microbiological Special Diagnostics at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark, for performing the serological analyses.

Ethical approval

The study was approved by the Lund University ethical committee (LU 237-93).

Disclosure statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Funding

The study was financially supported by the EU Interreg V program ScandTick Innovation, project ID 20200422, reference no 2015-000167, regional research funding in Region Skåne, Sweden, and by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (grant no. 8020-00344B).