'Rare' infections mimicking multiple sclerosis: Consider Lyme disease

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 259-260

  Stricker, Raphael B ^a   Johnson, Lorraine ^a  

^a International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme disease; Multiple sclerosis; Spirochete

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SEROLOGY; SPIROCHETE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 79952281890     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.11.017     Document Type: Letter

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