Clinical features of 705 Borrelia burgdorferi seropositive patients in an endemic area of Northern Italy

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Stinco, Giuseppe ^a   Ruscio, Maurizio ^b   Bergamo, Serena ^a   Trotter, Davide ^a   Patrone, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b Hospital of San Daniele del Friuli   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893853324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/414505     Document Type: Article

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