The clinical spectrum of early lyme borreliosis in patients with culture-confirmed erythema migrans

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 502-508

  Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Nowakowski, John ^b   Forseter, Gilda ^b   Goldberg, Neil S ^b   Bittker, Susan ^b   Cooper, Denise ^b   Aguero Rosenfeld, Maria ^b   Wormser, Gary P ^b  

^a WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; TICK BITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030014712     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(95)99915-9     Document Type: Article

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