Erythema migrans-like rash illness at a camp in North Carolina: A new tick-borne disease?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2635-2641

  Kirkland, Kathryn B ^a,b,e   Klimko, Theresa B ^b   Meriwether, Rebecca A ^b,f   Schriefer, Martin ^c   Levin, Michael ^d,g   Levine, Jay ^d   Mac Kenzie, William R ^a   Dennis, David T ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NC Dept of Environ and Nat Rsrc   (United States)

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

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Louisiana Office of Public Health   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; TICK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030710466     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.22.2635     Document Type: Article

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