Autoimmune thrombocytopenia associated with Borrelia burgdorferi.

Clin Infect Dis

Medizinische Klinik, Abteilung für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Abteilung für Transfusionsmedizin der Universität Tübingen, Germany.

Published: April 1999

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