Delayed diagnosis of lyme neuroborreliosis presenting with abducens neuropathy without intrathecal synthesis of borrelia antibodies

Medicina (Lithuania)

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 89-94

  Radzišauskiene, Daiva ^a   Ambrozaitis, Arvydas ^a   Marciuškiene, Egle ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UAB Endemik diagnostika Laboratory   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Abducens neuropathy; Chemokines; Lyme disease; Lyme neuroborreliosis; Mononeuropathy multiplex; Serological diagnosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MONONEUROPATHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BORRELIA; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; MONONEUROPATHIES;

EID: 84884254878     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina49020016     Document Type: Article

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