Hematogenous dissemination in early Lyme disease.

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Hematogenous dissemination has long been considered an important pathogenetic event in Lyme borreliosis but has been hard to document and characterize due to insensitive blood culture methods. In a series of recent investigations involving adult patients from the United States with erythema migrans, it was concluded that plasma was a better source of culture material than serum or whole blood, and yield...

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