Granulomatous cheilitis and Borrelia burgdorferi: Polymerase chain reaction and serologic studies in a retrospective case series of 12 patients

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1502-1506

  Muellegger, R R ^a   Weger, W ^a   Zoechling, N ^a   Kaddu, S ^a   Soyer, H P ^a   El Shabrawi Caelen, L ^a   Kerl, H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEILITIS; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIP DISEASE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MELKERSSON ROSENTHAL SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN GRANULOMA;

ADULT; AGED; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MELKERSSON-ROSENTHAL SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034536148     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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