Microbiologic Evaluation of Patients from Missouri with Erythema Migrans
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Prospective clinical evaluation of patients from Missouri and New York with erythema migrans-like skin lesions.
BACKGROUND The most common and most recognizable feature of Borrelia burgdorferi infection (Lyme disease) is the skin lesion erythema migrans (EM). An illness associated with an EM-like skin lesion, but which is not caused by B. burgdorferi, occurs in many southern states in the United States (southern tick-associated rash illness [STARI], also known as Masters disease). METHODS Clinical feat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/427289