Improvement in the Laboratory Recognition of Lyme Borreliosis with the Combination of Culture and PCR Methods

Molecular Diagnosis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 155-162

  Chmielewski, Tomasz ^a   Fiett, Janusz ^b   Gniadkowski, Marek ^b   Tylewska Wierzbanowska, Stanislawa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CITRIC ACID; DNA 16S; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SERODIAGNOSIS; SERUM; SYMPTOM; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TICK BITE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 2042470777     PISSN: 10848592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03260032     Document Type: Article

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