Clinical courses of acute and chronic neuroborreliosis following treatment with ceftriaxone;Verlauf der akuten und chronischen neuroborreliose nach behandlung mit ceftriaxon

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Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 553-557

  Kaiser, R ^a  

^a Klinikum Pforzheim GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Ceftriaxone; Neuroborreliosis

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROBORRELIOSIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEFTRIAXONE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042846899     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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