Acute peripheral facial palsy in Lyme disease - A distal neuritis at the infection site

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 267-273

  Eiffert, H ^a   Karsten, A ^a   Schlott, T ^a   Ohlenbusch, A ^a   Laskawi, R ^a   Hoppert, M ^a   Christen, Hans Jürgen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Children's Hospital Auf der Bult   (Germany)

^c KINDERKRANKENHAUS AUF DER BULT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Borrelia burgdorferi; Facial palsy; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PERIPHERAL FACIAL PALSY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BORRELIA GARINII; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EDEMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEART; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYME DISEASE; MACROPHAGE; NEURITIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PLASMA CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN; SPIROCHETE; TICK BITE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; NEURITIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 8844241479     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-821174     Document Type: Article

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