Fig. 1

The initial blood and cerebrospinal fluid neutrophil counts in tick-borne encephalitis, dependent on clinical features. a The peripheral blood neutrophils (cells/μl) in patients stratified by outcome: no sequelae (I, n = 133), only subjective complaints (II, n = 34), objective neurologic deficits (III, n = 8). ^#A trend with a statistical significance at p = 0.0504 with non-parametric ANOVA. b The cerebrospinal fluid neutrophils (cells/μl) in patients with (n = 15) and without (n = 225) spinal paresis. *A significant difference between the groups, p < 0.05. The data from individual patients are shown with circles, median values with horizontal lines. Five extremely high values in b are shown out of scale above the plot