Lyme disease patients’ serum contains IgM antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi that cross-react with neuronal antigens

Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1988, Pages 1439-1442

  Sigal, Leonard H ^a,c   Tatum, Arthur H ^b,c  

^a High Reliability and Sensing   (United States)

^b VAMC Syracuse ^*  (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; AXONS; BORRELIA; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYME DISEASE;

EID: 0023778628     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.38.9.1439     Document Type: Article

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