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Volume 24, Number 9—September 2018
Research Letter

Borrelia miyamotoi Disease in an Immunocompetent Patient, Western Europe

Dieuwertje Hoornstra1Comments to Author , Joris Koetsveld1, Hein Sprong, Alexander E. Platonov, and Joppe W. Hovius
Author affiliations: Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (D. Hoornstra, J. Koetsveld, J.W. Hovius); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands (H. Sprong); Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia (A.E. Platonov)

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Results of GlpQ and variable major proteins (Vmps) IgM and IgG ELISA and confirmatory Western blot tests in testing of 72-year-old woman in the Netherlands who showed evidence of Borrelia miyamotoi disease. A) Anti-GlpQ and anti–Vmps IgM ELISA results representative of 3 individual ELISAs. B) Confirmatory IgM Western blot results of samples taken at 3 different time points with recombinant proteins. C) Anti-GlpQ and anti–Vmps IgG ELISA results representative of 3 individual ELISAs. D) Confirmato

Figure. Results of GlpQ and variable major proteins (Vmps) IgM and IgG ELISA and confirmatory Western blot tests in testing of a 72-year-old woman in the Netherlands who showed evidence of Borrelia miyamotoi disease. A) Anti-GlpQ and anti–Vmps IgM ELISA results representative of 3 individual ELISAs. B) Confirmatory IgM Western blot results of samples taken at 3 different time points with recombinant proteins. C) Anti-GlpQ and anti–Vmps IgG ELISA results representative of 3 individual ELISAs. D) Confirmatory IgG Western blot results of samples taken at 3 different time points with recombinant proteins. GlpQ, glycerophosphodiester phosphodieasterase; Vlp, variable large protein; Vsp, variable small protein.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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