Lyme disease masquerading as brown recluse spider bite

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 558-561

  Osterhoudt, Kevin C ^a,b   Zaoutis, Theoklis ^a,b   Zorc, Joseph J ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN INJURY; SKIN NECROSIS; SPIDER BITE; TICK BITE;

EID: 0036239390     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2002.119509     Document Type: Article

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