Laboratory data in children with Lyme neuroborreliosis, relation to clinical presentation and duration of symptoms

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 355-362

  Tveitnes, Dag ^a   Øymar, Knut ^a,b   Natås, Olav ^a  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGISM; MENINGITIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RADICULAR PAIN; SYMPTOM; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NORWAY; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NORWAY;

EID: 67649560052     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540902787666     Document Type: Article

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