Improving the yield of blood cultures for patients with early lyme disease

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 296-298

  Wormser, Gary P ^a,c   Nowakowski, John ^a   Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Bittker, Susan ^a   Cooper, Denise ^a   Pavia, Charles ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD VOLUME; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0031975457     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.1.296-298.1998     Document Type: Article

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