Microbiologic evaluation of patients from Missouri with erythema migrans

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 423-428

  Wormser, Gary P ^a   Masters, Edwin ^b   Liveris, Dionysios ^a   Nowakowski, John ^a   Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Holmgren, Diane ^a   Bittker, Susan ^a   Cooper, Denise ^a   Wang, Guiqing ^a   Schwartz, Ira ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Munger Pavilion ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA LONESTARI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; SPIROCHETE; UNITED STATES;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMANS; MISSOURI; PHYLOGENY; SKIN; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 13444283306     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427289     Document Type: Article

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