Cluster of Lyme Disease Cases at a Summer Camp in Kent County, Maryland

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 44-46

  Strickland, G Thomas ^a   Trivedi, Leena ^b   Watkins, Stanley ^a   Clothier, Margaret ^c   Grant, John ^c   Morgan, John ^d   Schmidtman, Edward ^e   Burkot, Thomas ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene   (United States)

^c Kent County Health Department   (United States)

^d Private Practice of Medicine   (United States)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYME DISEASE; MARYLAND;

EID: 0029682144     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0201.960105     Document Type: Article

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