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Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Research

Economic Impact of Lyme Disease

Xinzhi Zhang*Comments to Author , Martin I. Meltzer*, César A. Peña†1, Annette B. Hopkins†, Lane Wroth‡, and Alan D. Fix†
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ‡Care First-Easton Branch (previously Delmarva Health Plan), Easton, Maryland, USA

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Table 1

Reported cases* of Lyme disease (LD) in Maryland Eastern Shore, 1997–2000†

County 1997 1998 1999 2000 Total
Caroline 18 17 26 21 82
Dorchester 3 4 3 4 14
Kent 24 47 20 34 125
Queen Anne 32 31 40 35 138
Talbot 13 22 33 37 105
Total 90 121 122 131 464

*Reported cases defined according to the national surveillance definition. For the purpose of surveillance, a case of LD is defined as physician-diagnosed erythema migrans >5 cm or >1 late rheumatologic, neurologic, or cardiac manifestation with laboratory evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection.
†Source: Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Available from http://www.edcp.org/vet_med/lyme_disease.html

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1Current affiliation: Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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