Diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid examination in children with peripheral facial palsy and suspected Lyme borreliosis

Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 817-824

  Albisetti, Manuela ^b   Schaer, Gertrud ^b   Good, Markus ^b   Boltshauser, Eugen ^b   Nadal, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CEFTRIAXONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SERUM;

EID: 0030869229     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.49.3.817     Document Type: Article

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