Simultaneous human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and lyme borreliosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-30

  Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Horowitz, Harold W ^a,b   Hsieh, Tze Chen ^a   Wu, Joseph M ^a   Aguero Rosenfeld, Maria E ^a   Schwartz, Ira ^a   Nowakowski, John ^a   Varde, Shobha ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICHIOSIS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERINFECTION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030811322     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199707033370105     Document Type: Article

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