Diagnostic challenges of early Lyme disease: Lessons from a community case series

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Aucott, John ^a   Morrison, Candis ^b   Munoz, Beatriz ^c   Rowe, Peter C ^a   Schwarzwalder, Alison ^b   West, Sheila K ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Lyme Disease Research Foundation of Maryland   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHEMA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; MALE;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MARYLAND; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67650169865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-79     Document Type: Article

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