Humoral immune responses in patients with lyme neuroborreliosis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 645-650

  Cerar, Tjaša ^a   Ogrinc, Katarina ^b   Strle, Franc ^b   Ružić Sabljić, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BORRELIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOASSAY; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950643665     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00341-09     Document Type: Article

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