Lyme Disease in Children

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 315-326

  Feder Jr , Henry M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b Farmington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; DOXYCYCLINE; PLACEBO;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERNET; LYME DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SYNOVECTOMY; TICK BITE; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MYOCARDITIS; PROGNOSIS; TICKS;

EID: 42949167658     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2007.12.007     Document Type: Review

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