The clinical spectrum of lyme neuroborreliosis

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Elamin, M ^a   Monaghan, T ^a   Mulllins, G ^a   Ali, E ^a   Corbett Feeney, G ^a   O'Connell, S ^a   Counihan, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRELAND; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MONONEUROPATHY MULTIPLEX; MYELORADICULOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77949742740     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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