Facial nerve palsy associated with lyme disease [2]

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 516-517

  Halperin, John J ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSGEUSIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

FACIAL PARALYSIS; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE;

EID: 0141592393     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10451     Document Type: Letter

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