Focus floating microscopy: "Gold standard" for cutaneous borreliosis?

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-222

  Eisendle, Klaus ^a   Grabner, Tanja ^a   Zelger, Bernhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Borreliosis; Focus floating microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Lyme disease; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

SERPENTINE;

ACRODERMATITIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; SYPHILIS; TICK; TICK BITE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYME DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY;

ACRODERMATITIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TICKS;

EID: 33847082960     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/3369XXFPEQUNEP5C     Document Type: Article

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