Clinical characteristics associated with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato skin culture results in patients with erythema migrans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Strle, Franc ^a   Lusa, Lara ^b   Ružić Sabljić, Eva ^b   Maraspin, Vera ^a   Furlan, Stanka Lotrič ^a   Cimperman, Jože ^a   Ogrinc, Katarina ^a   Rojko, Tereza ^a   Zorman, Jerneja Videčnik ^a   Stupica, Daša ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CULTURE; SLOVENIA; TICK BITE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BORRELIA; FEMALE; GLOSSITIS, BENIGN MIGRATORY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SKIN; TICK BITES;

EID: 84890892032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082132     Document Type: Article

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