Serologic markers of lyme disease in children with autism

JAMA

Volumn 309, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 1771-1773

  Ajamian, Mary ^a   Kosofsky, Barry E ^b   Wormser, Gary P ^c   Rajadhyaksha, Anjali M ^b   Alaedini, Armin ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; AUTISM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SEROLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYME DISEASE; MALE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877139111     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.618     Document Type: Letter

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