Serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, and B. afzelii Western blots (immunoblots)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1732-1738

  Norman, Gary L ^a,c   Antig, Jeffrey M ^a   Bigaignon, Geoffroy ^b   Hogrefe, Wayne R ^a  

^a MRL Diagnostics   (United States)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^c INOVA DIAGNOSTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0029941842     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.7.1732-1738.1996     Document Type: Article

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