Culture-Confirmed Cases Involving Patients with Erythema Migrans
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Franc Strle, Jeffrey A. Nelson, Eva Ruzic-Sabljic, Joze Cimperman, Vera Maraspin, Stanka Lotric-Furlan, Yu Cheng, Maria M. Picken, Gordon M. Trenholme, and Roger N. Picken From the Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre, and the Institute of Microbiology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Section of Infectious Disease and Department of Immunology/ Microbiology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, lllinois, U.S.A.; and Department of Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, lllinois, U.S.A.
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