Practice-based research network partnership with CDC to acquire clinical specimens to study the etiology of Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI)

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 720-727

  Vaughn, Meagan F ^a   Sloane, Philip D ^b,c   Knierim, Kyle ^c   Varkey, Dax ^c   Pilgard, Mark A ^d   Johnson, Barbara J B ^d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

CDC; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; PBRNs; Practice Based Research Networks; Southern tick associated rash

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649818577     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2010.06.100098     Document Type: Article

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