Treating post lyme disease: Trying to solve one equation with too many unknowns

Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1888-1889

  Steiner, Israel ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; PLACEBO;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; POST LYME DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0038377127     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000077046.67754.60     Document Type: Editorial

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