More specific bands in the IgG western blot in sera from Scottish patients with suspected Lyme borreliosis

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 719-721

  Evans, Roger ^a   Mavin, Sally ^a   McDonagh, Susan ^a   Chatterton, Jean M W ^a   Milner, Rachel ^a   Ho Yen, Darrel O ^a  

^a RAIGMORE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYME DISEASE; SCOTLAND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 77955733829     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.076307     Document Type: Article

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