Pitfalls in diagnosis of Lyme disease what you need to know about serologic testing

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-72

  Still, Margaret M ^a   Ryan, Michael E ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYME DISEASE; REVIEW; SEROLOGY;

EID: 0030845594     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1997.07.260     Document Type: Review

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