Membranous glomerulonephritis secondary to Borrelia burgdorferi infection presenting as nephrotic syndrome

NDT Plus

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-106

  Papineni, Padmasayee ^a   Doherty, Tom ^a   Pickett, Tom ^b   Toth, Tibor ^c   Boddana, Preetham ^b  

^a Hospital for Tropical Diseases   (United Kingdom)

^b GLOUCESTERSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE REPORT; EDEMA; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; TICK BITE;

EID: 77951675474     PISSN: 17530784     EISSN: 17530792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndtplus/sfp160     Document Type: Letter

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