Lyme Borreliosis - An overdiagnosed disease?

Infection

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 140-143

  Svenungsson, B ^a   Lindh, G ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; SEROLOGY; TICK BITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHILD; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031011788     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02113600     Document Type: Article

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