Recommendation to include OspA and OspB in the new immunoblotting criteria for serodiagnosis of Lyme disease

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1353-1354

  Hilton, Eileen ^a   Devoti, James ^a   Sood, Sunil ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBODY; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0029982597     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.6.1353-1354.1996     Document Type: Article

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