Erythema migrans-like illness among Caribbean Islanders

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1615-1617

  Sharma, Anu ^a   Jaimungal, Sarada ^a   Basdeo Maharaj, Khamedaye ^a   Chalapathi Rao, A V ^a   Teelucksingh, Surujpaul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BECLOMETASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; KETOCONAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; RETINOL; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CASE REPORT; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RASH; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK INFESTATION; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CARIBBEAN REGION; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TICKS;

EID: 77958586809     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.100587     Document Type: Article

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