Renal manifestations of lyme disease: Interplay between infection and immunostimulation

Handbook of Disease Outbreaks: Prevention, Detection and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 423-427

  Kirmizis, Dimitrios ^a   Chatzidimitriou, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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