Complete Heart Block in a Dog Seropositive for Borrelia burgdorferi: Similarity to Human Lyme Carditis

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 138-144

  Levy, Steven A ^a   Duray, Paul Harrison ^b  

^a Durham Veterinary Hospital   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; CASE REPORT; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA; CASE REPORT; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 0024051519     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: 19391676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.1988.tb02810.x     Document Type: Article

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