Southern tick-associated rash Illness (STARI) in the north: STARI following a tick bite in long Island, New York

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Feder Jr , Henry M ^a,b   Hoss, Diane M ^c   Zemel, Lawrence ^a   Telford, Sam R ^d   Dias, Feliciano ^b   Wormser, Gary P ^e  

^a Farmington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c Caris Diagnostics   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN;

AMBLYOMMA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYME DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RASH; SOUTHERN TICK ASSOCIATED RASH ILLNESS; TICK BITE; TREATMENT DURATION;

AMOXICILLIN; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; NEW YORK CITY; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 80054737390     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir553     Document Type: Article

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