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Current Guidelines, Common Clinical Pitfalls, and Future Directions for Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease, United States

In the United States, Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted to humans by blacklegged ticks. Patients with an erythema migrans lesion and epidemiologic risk can receive a diagnosis without laboratory testing. For all other patients, laboratory testing is necessary to confirm...

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Autores principales: Moore, Andrew, Nelson, Christina, Molins, Claudia, Mead, Paul, Schriefer, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27314832
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2207.151694