Actinomycotic splenic abscesses presenting with arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 445-448

  Quintero Del Rio, A I ^a,b   Trujillo, M ^a,c   Fink, C W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Pediatric Rheumatology

^c Infectious Disease ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Actinomyces; Reactive arthritis; Splenic abscess; Systemic arthritis

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIACEAE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION RISK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ABSCESS; UREAPLASMA; YERSINIA;

ABSCESS; ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, REACTIVE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINS; SPLEEN; SPLENIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0030812826     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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