DESCRIPTIVE DATA ON TRENDS AMONG PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH LYME DISEASE IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN, 2017-2021


 This retrospective chart review identifies hospitalizations for Lyme disease between 2017 and 2021 at two southwest Michigan sites. The number of hospitalized Lyme patients in our area hospitals increased sharply, while admissions for Lyme carditis and neuroborreliosis increased in parallel. Southwest Michigan is becoming an endemic area for Lyme disease.