Borrelia burgdorferi infection and cutaneous lyme disease, Mexico

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1556-1558

  Gordillo Pérez, Guadalupe ^a,c   Torres, Javier ^a   Solórzano Santos, Fortino ^a   De Martino, Sylvie ^b   Lipsker, Dan ^b   Velázquez, Edmundo ^a   Ramon, Guillermo ^a   Onofre, Muñoz ^a   Jaulhac, Benoit ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTOMA; MEXICO; MOSQUITO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 35548979079     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1310.060630     Document Type: Article

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