Ticking the right boxes: Classification of patients suspected of Lyme borreliosis at an academic referral center in the Netherlands

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 368.e11-368.e20

  Coumou, J ^a   Herkes, E A ^a   Brouwer, M C ^b,c   van de Beek, D ^b,c   Tas, S W ^b,c   Casteelen, G ^b,c   van Vugt, M ^b,c   Starink, M V ^b,c   de Vries, H J C ^b,c,d   de Wever, B ^b,e   Spanjaard, L ^b,e   Hovius, J W R ^a,b,c  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Amsterdam Multidisciplinary Lyme Borreliosis Center   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Neurology ^*  (Netherlands)

^d Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Lyme disease; Multidisciplinary communications; Retrospective studies; Tertiary care centers

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BIOPSY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADOLESCENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928553571     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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