Physician reported incidence of early and late Lyme borreliosis

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hofhuis, Agnetha ^a   Harms, Margriet ^a   Bennema, Sita ^a   Van Den Wijngaard, Cees C ^a   Van Pelt, Wilfrid ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Incidence; Lyme borreliosis; Medical diagnoses

Indexed keywords

ACRODERMATITIS CHRONICA ATROPHICANS; ARTICLE; BORRELIAL LYMPHOCYTOMA; CARDIOLOGIST; COMPANY PHYSICIAN; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOLOGIST; EPISCLERITIS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNIST; KERATITIS; LYME CARDITIS; LYME DISEASE; LYME ENCEPHALOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NEUROLOGIST; OPHTHALMOLOGIST; PAPILLITIS; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOLOGY; TICK BITE; UVEITIS; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIANS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TICKS;

EID: 84928737262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0777-6     Document Type: Article

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