Clinical predictors of lyme disease among children with a peripheral facial palsy at an emergency department in a lyme disease-endemic area

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Nigrovic, Lise E ^a   Thompson, Amy D ^a   Fine, Andrew M ^a   Kimia, Amir ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial palsy; Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 58149159275     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-1273     Document Type: Article

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