Clinical features and specific immunological response to Borrelia afzelii in patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans

Journal of Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 267-278

  Flisiak, Iwona ^a   Sckwartz, Robert A ^b   Chodynicka, Bozena ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans; Borrelia afzelii; Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme borreliosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ACRODERMATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PARESIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ACRODERMATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

EID: 0033500974     PISSN: 00257850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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