Citrate Anticoagulant Improves the Sensitivity of Borreliella (Borrelia) burgdorferi Plasma Culture

J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Nov;55(11):3297-3299. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01046-17. Epub 2017 Sep 6.

¹ Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA amarques@niaid.nih.gov.
² Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, College Park, Maryland, USA.
³ Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.

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Keywords: Borreliella (Borrelia) burgdorferi; Lyme disease; blood; blood culture; culture; laboratory diagnosis.

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