Direct detection of borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in patients with early disseminated lyme borreliosis

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 179-182

  Schwarzová, Katarína ^a   Košt'Anová, Zina ^b   Holečková, Katarína ^c   Špitalská, Eva ^a   Boldiš, Vojtech ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Regional Office of Public Health   (United States)

^c SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Cultivation; Direct detection; Electron microscopy; Polymerase chain reaction (pcr); Restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649130499     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21101/cejph.b0015     Document Type: Article

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