Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi by species-specific and broad-range PCR of synovial fluid and synovial tissue of Lyme arthritis patients before and after antibiotic treatment [6]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 271-272

  Lipowsky, C ^a   Altwegg, M ^a   Michel, B A ^a   Brühlmann, Pius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0242668784     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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