Borrelia valaisiana in cerebrospinal fluid [5]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1692-1693

  Diza, Eudoxia ^a   Papa, Anna ^a   Vezyri, Eleni ^a   Tsounis, Stefanos ^a   Milonas, Ioannis ^a   Antoniadis, Antonis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; IXODES; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NEUROBORRELIOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPASTIC PARESIS;

EID: 4444374920     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1009.030439     Document Type: Letter

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