Erythema migrans in solid-organ transplant recipients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1751-1754

  Maraspin, Vera ^a   Cimperman, Jože ^a   Lotrič Furlan, Stanka ^a   Logar, Mateja ^a   Ružić Sabljić, Eva ^b   Strle, Franc ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c NONE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYME DISEASE; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SLOVENIA; TICK BITE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 33744784543     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504384     Document Type: Article

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