Comparison of Culture-Confirmed Erythema Migrans Caused by <i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i> sensu stricto in New York State and by <i>Borrelia afzelii</i> in Slovenia

Abstract

Erythema migrans caused by B. afzelii in Slovenia and erythema migrans caused by B. burgdorferi in New York have distinct clinical presentations. Caution should be used when clinical and laboratory experience from one side of the Atlantic is applied to patients on the other.