Rash decisions: Lyme disease, or not?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 966-968

  Dennis, David T ^a,b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA LONESTARI; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SOUTHERN TICK ASSOCIATED RASH ILLNESS; TICK BITE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; DERMATITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; TICKS;

EID: 25444499679     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432958     Document Type: Editorial

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