Recognition and treatment of erythema migrans: Are we off target?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 477-479

  Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; DOXYCYCLINE; LYME DISEASE VACCINE;

AMBLYOMMA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; LYME DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN BIOPSY; TICK BITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037133517     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-136-6-200203190-00012     Document Type: Short Survey

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