Tick-borne relapsing fever in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 122-131

  Dworkin, Mark S ^a,h   Andersen Jr , Donald E ^b,c   Schwan, Tom G ^c   Shoemaker, Phyllis C ^d   Banerjee, Satyen N ^e   Kassen, Barry O ^f   Burgdorfer, Willy ^g  

^a Sect of Communic Dis Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^f British Columbia Center for Disease Control   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BORRELIA INFECTION; CANADA; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERXHEIMER REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031952588     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516273     Document Type: Article

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