Complications associated with Brucella melitensis infection: A study of 530 cases

Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 195-211

  Colmenero, J D ^a   Reguera, J M ^a   Martos, F ^a   Sanchez De Mora D ^a   Delgado, M ^a   Causse, M ^a   Martin Farfan A ^a   Juarez C ^a  

^a Regional Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; SPONDYLITIS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DISEASES; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029761708     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-199607000-00003     Document Type: Article

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