Tick-borne relapsing fever imported from West Africa: Diagnosis by quantitative buffy coat analysis and in vitro culture of Borrelia crocidurae

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2027-2030

  Van Dam, Alje P ^a,b   Van Gool, Tom ^a   Wetsteyn, José C F M ^a   Dankert, Jacob ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SPIROCHETE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA CROCIDURAE; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0032952397     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.2027-2030.1999     Document Type: Article

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