Clinical features of double infection with tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme borreliosis transmitted by tick bite

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1350-1353

  Logina, I ^b   Krumina, A ^e   Karelis, G ^d   Elsone, L ^b   Viksna, L ^e   Rozentale, B ^c   Donaghy, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PAULS STRADINS CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Latvia)

^c Infectology Centre of Latvia   (Latvia)

^d Clinical Hospital Gailezers   (Latvia)

^e RIGA STRADINS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; SEROLOGY; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 33845218188     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.060731     Document Type: Article

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