Borrelia miyamotoi infection presenting as human granulocytic anaplasmosis: A case report

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-27

  Chowdri, Hanumara Ram ^a   Gugliotta, Joseph L ^b   Berardi, Victor P ^c   Goethert, Heidi K ^d   Molloy, Philip J ^c   Sterling, Sherri L ^c   Telford III, Sam R ^d  

^a Hawthorn Medical Associates   (United States)

^b Hunterdon Medical Center   (United States)

^c Research and Reference Divisions   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CREATINE KINASE; DOXYCYCLINE; EDETATE DISODIUM; INFUSION FLUID;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BED REST; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CHILL; DNA SEQUENCE; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOPENIA; LYME DISEASE; MALAISE; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MYALGIA; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PIROPLASMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; SERUM; SWEAT; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOXYCYCLINE; FEVER; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84879568637     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-159-1-201307020-00005     Document Type: Article

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