Seroprevalence and seroconversion for tick-borne diseases in a high- risk population in the northeast United States

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 404-409

  Hilton, Eileen ^a   DeVoti, James ^a   Benach, Jorge L ^b   Halluska, Maria L ^b   White, Dennis J ^b   Paxton, Helen ^c   Dumler, J Steven ^d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Integrated Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BABESIOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NEW ENGLAND; RISK; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 0033118425     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(99)00046-7     Document Type: Article

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