Characteristics of Medically-Attended Lyme Disease Cases

9.5 KB of data on medically-attended Lyme disease cases, published by Maria Major on figshare. The dataset is available in XLS format and was last updated on April 13, 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify common demographic or clinical characteristics among Lyme disease patients based on the described case attributes.
• Analyze patterns in healthcare-seeking behavior for Lyme disease based on the medically-attended case focus.
• Support epidemiological modeling of Lyme disease risk factors based on aggregated case data.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (9.5 KB), facilitating quick download and initial inspection.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation.
• Last update date is explicitly provided (2026-04-13).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Maria Major via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely contains aggregated characteristics from medical records or surveillance systems.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 17:25:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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