Lyme disease update: Current approach to early, disseminated, and late disease

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 51-70

  Rahn, Daniel W ^a   Felz, Michael W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0031801858     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1998.05.482     Document Type: Review

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