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05-07-2022 | Neurologic Lyme Disease | Letter to the Editor

Lyme neuroborreliosis: warning about the risk of false negative of CSF Borrelia burgdorferi antibody index related to high level of CSF albumin

Authors: Timothée Klopfenstein, Damien Fournier, Vincent Gendrin, Pauline Garnier, Antoine Grillon, Souheil Zayet

Published in: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases | Issue 8/2022

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Title: Lyme neuroborreliosis: warning about the risk of false negative of CSF Borrelia burgdorferi antibody index related to high level of CSF albumin
Authors: Timothée Klopfenstein
Damien Fournier
Vincent Gendrin
Pauline Garnier
Antoine Grillon
Souheil Zayet
Publication date: 05-07-2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Neurologic Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease
Published in: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases / Issue 8/2022
Print ISSN: 0934-9723
Electronic ISSN: 1435-4373
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-022-04471-y

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