Recognition and management of lyme disease

American Family Physician

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 427-436

  Verdon, Mary E ^a   Sigal, Leonard H ^b  

^a Hunterdon Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HEART BLOCK; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYME DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LYME DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030853374     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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