Focus-floating microscopy for detecting Borrelia species in tissue sections: Back to basics

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 662-663

  White, Kevin P ^b   Barry, Catherine I ^b   Patterson, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; EDITORIAL; FOCUS FLOATING MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TISSUE SECTION;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOPSY; BORRELIA; HUMANS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 44249125716     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.5.662     Document Type: Editorial

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