Predictive value of serology in diagnosing Lyme borreliosis.
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A Rizzoli ([email protected])1,2, H C Hauffe1,2, G Carpi1, G I Vourc’h3, M Neteler1, R Rosà1 1. Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige (Trento), Italy 2. Both authors contributed equally to this work. 3. Unité d’Epidémiologie Animale, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), St Genès C...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.47.4.344