Diagnosis of lyme borreliosis

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 484-509

  Aguero Rosenfeld, Maria E ^a,b   Wang, Guiqing ^a   Schwartz, Ira ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^a,b  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^b WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LYME DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LYME DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 22244490962     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.18.3.484-509.2005     Document Type: Review

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