Ranked scatter plot of tick attachment times from 274 tick bite cases that did not receive antibiotics at baseline, excluding twenty cases (7%) that did not report tick attachment time.
posted on 2013-05-16, 01:08authored byAgnetha Hofhuis, Tineke Herremans, Daan W. Notermans, Hein Sprong, Manoj Fonville, Joke W. B. van der Giessen, Wilfrid van Pelt
Fourteen cases had evidence of early Borrelia infection (erythema migrans or seroconversion) within three months after a tick bite, of which two cases did not report attachment time.