A population-based seroepidemiologic study of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and Lyme borreliosis on the west coast of Sweden

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 720-722

  Dumler, J Stephen ^a   Dotevall, Leif ^b   Gustafson, Rolf ^b   Granström, Mart A ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031017694     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/175.3.720     Document Type: Article

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