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To the Editor: In their article on the epidemiology of Lyme disease in southern Sweden, Berglund et al. (Nov. 16 issue)¹ stated that borreliosis is not a notifiable disease in any European country. We would like to correct this statement. Notification of Lyme borreliosis has been mandatory in Slovenia (previously the northernmost republic of the former Yugoslavia) since 1987. Slovenia is a country of 20,256 km² with a population of approximately 2 million. It has been recognized as a region of endemic Lyme borreliosis since 1986, and borrelial infections have replaced tick-borne meningoencephalitis as the most prevalent tick-borne illness.² Recently, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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