Antinuclear antibodies are not increased in the early phase of Borrelia infection

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 145-148

  Śpiewak, Radosław ^a,b   Stojek, Nimfa Maria ^a   Chmielewska Badora, Jolanta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti dsDNA; Anti RNP; Anti Sm; Antinuclear antibodies; Autoantibodies; Autoimmune diseases; Borrelia burgdorferi; Borreliosis; Lyme disease; Poland; Serological study

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CHI SQUARE TEST; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; POLAND; POLYMYOSITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERODERMA; SCREENING TEST; SERUM; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; MARTES PENNANTI; SCLERODERMA;

EID: 3042823703     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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