Differences and similarities between culture-confirmed human granulocytic anaplasmosis and early Lyme disease

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 954-958

  Wormser, Gary P ^a   Aguero Rosenfeld, Maria E ^a,b   Cox, Mary E ^a   Nowakowski, John ^a   Nadelman, Robert B ^a   Holmgren, Diane ^a   McKenna, Donna ^a   Bittker, Susan ^a   Zentmaier, Lois ^a   Cooper, Denise ^a   Liveris, Dionyxsios ^a   Schwartz, Ira ^a   Horowitz, Harold W ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD BUFFY COAT; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MYALGIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; BLOOD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84874032565     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02929-12     Document Type: Article

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