Autoimmune-mediated polyneuropathy triggered by borrelial infection?

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 781-785

  Rupprecht, Tobias A ^a   Elstner, Matthias ^a   Weil, Sabine ^a   Pfister, Hans Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia; CXCL13; GM1; Multifocal motor neuropathy; Neuroborreliosis

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CXCL13 CHEMOKINE; GANGLIOSIDE GM1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NERVE BLOCK; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHEMOKINE CXCL13; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POLYNEUROPATHIES;

EID: 44949170618     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20929     Document Type: Article

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