Predictive model for lyme meningitis [13]

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 438-439

  Porwancher, Richard ^a  

^a PC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 33746838941     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-1038     Document Type: Letter

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