Quantitative Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Erythema Migrans Skin Lesions Using Internally Controlled Duplex Real Time PCR

• Maria O’Rourke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria O’Rourke, Andreas Traweger

  * E-mail: maria_o’rourke@baxter.com

  Affiliation Vaccine R&D, Baxter Bioscience, Orth/Donau, Austria

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• Andreas Traweger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria O’Rourke, Andreas Traweger

  Affiliations Vaccine R&D, Baxter Bioscience, Orth/Donau, Austria, Paracelsus Medical University, Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg, Institute of Tendon and Bone Regeneration, Salzburg, Austria

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• Lara Lusa,

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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• Dasa Stupica,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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• Vera Maraspin,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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• P. Noel Barrett,

  Affiliation Vaccine R&D, Baxter Bioscience, Orth/Donau, Austria

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• Franc Strle,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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• Ian Livey

  Affiliation Vaccine R&D, Baxter Bioscience, Orth/Donau, Austria

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