Chronic or late Lyme neuroborreliosis: Analysis of evidence compared to chronic or late neurosyphilis

Open Neurology Journal

Volumn 6, Issue SPEC.ISS.1, 2012, Pages 146-157

  Miklossy, Judith ^a  

^a Prevention Alzheimer Foundation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Chronic infection; Chronic Lyme disease; Late Lyme disease; Lyme neuroborrelisosis; Neurosyphilis; Syphilis; Treponema pallidum

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD14 ANTIGEN; CD59 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 12; SERUM AMYLOID A; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ARTHRITIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEURITIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SPIROCHETE; SYPHILIS; TABES DORSALIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VASCULITIS;

EID: 84893746122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1874205X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874205X01206010146     Document Type: Review

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