Increased cerebrospinal fluid levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAp) in Lyme neuroborreliosis

Infection

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-129

  Dotevall, L ^a   Rosengren, L E ^b   Hagberg, L ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DORSAL ROOT; ENCEPHALITIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MENINX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0029917502     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01713316     Document Type: Article

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