Human Borrelia miyamotoi infection in the United States

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 291-293

  Krause, Peter J ^a   Narasimhan, Sukanya ^b   Wormser, Gary P ^c   Rollend, Lindsay ^a   Fikrig, Erol ^b   Lepore, Timothy ^d   Barbour, Alan ^e   Fish, Durland ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Nantucket Cottage Hospital   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE; PROTEIN GLPQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84872446506     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1215469     Document Type: Letter

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