Can protracted relapsing fever resemble Lyme disease?

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Published in Med Hypotheses on June 01, 1991

Authors

W R Lange1, T G Schwan, J D Frame

Author Affiliations

1: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205.

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