Culture-positive Lyme borreliosis

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 168, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 500-502

  Hudson, Bernard J ^a   Stewart, Mark ^a   Lennox, Virginia A ^a   Fukunaga, Masahito ^b   Yabuki, Mihe ^b   Macorison, Heather ^c   Kitchener Smith, Janet ^d  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORRELIA GARINII; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; EUROPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SYMPTOM; TRAVEL;

EID: 0032543107     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb141415.x     Document Type: Article

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