Lyme borreliosis in 2005, 30 years after initial observations in Lyme Connecticut

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 118, Issue 21-22, 2006, Pages 625-633

  Steere, Allen C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Lyme borreliosis; Pathogenesis; Therapy

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A; PENICILLIN G SODIUM; PLACEBO;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ECOLOGY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHILD; CONNECTICUT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; LYME DISEASE VACCINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845676528     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-006-0687-x     Document Type: Review

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