European lyme borreliosis: 231 Culture-confirmed cases involving patients with erythema migrans

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-65

  Strie, Franc ^b   Nelson, Jeffrey A ^a   Ruzic Sabljic, Eva ^b   Cimperman, Joze ^b   Maraspin, Vera ^b   Lotric Furlan, Stanka ^b   Cheng, Yu ^b   Picken, Maria M ^b   Trenholme, Gordon M ^b   Picken, Roger N ^b  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORRELIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SPIROCHETE; TICK BITE; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 19244364099     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.1.61     Document Type: Article

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