Disease-specific diagnosis of coinfecting tickborne zoonoses: babesiosis, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, and Lyme disease.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on April 04, 2002

Authors

Peter J Krause1, Kathleen McKay, Charles A Thompson, Vijay K Sikand, Ronald Lentz, Timothy Lepore, Linda Closter, Diane Christianson, Sam R Telford, David Persing, Justin D Radolf, Andrew Spielman, Deer-Associated Infection Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, Genetics, and Developmental Biology, and the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA. PKrause@CCMCKIDS.org

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