An unusual case of brucellosis in japan: Difficulties in the differential diagnosis from pulmonary tuberculosis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 310-314

  Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Tanaka, Shintaroh ^a   Yoshida, Kazuhiro ^a   Hoshino, Hideaki ^a   Sasaki, Hiroko ^a   Takahashi, Kohji ^a   Kimura, Kohichi ^a   Fujii, Nobuhiro ^a   Kimura, Hiromichi ^a   Mori, Michio ^a   Abe, Shosaku ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brucella abortus; Imported zoonosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Pulmonary disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0030120069     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.310     Document Type: Article

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