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Unusual Presentation of Lyme Disease: Horner Syndrome with Negative Serology
Candis Morrison, Ari Seifter and John N. Aucott
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine March 2009, 22 (2) 219-222; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2009.02.080130
Candis Morrison
From the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
PhD, CRNPAri Seifter
From the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
John N. Aucott
From the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
MD
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Unusual Presentation of Lyme Disease: Horner Syndrome with Negative Serology
Candis Morrison, Ari Seifter, John N. Aucott
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine Mar 2009, 22 (2) 219-222; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.02.080130
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