Positive Lyme disease serology in patients with clinical and laboratory evidence of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 142-147

  Wormser, Gary P ^a,c   Horowitz, Harold W ^a   Nowakowski, John ^a   McKenna, Donna ^a   Dumler, J Stephen ^b   Varde, Shobha ^a   Schwartz, Ira ^a   Carbonaro, Carol ^c   Aguero Rosenfeld, Maria ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis; Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

EID: 0031019220     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/107.2.142     Document Type: Article

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