Spinal brucellosis in a Southern California resident

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-65

  Applebaum, Geoffrey D ^a,b   Mathisen, Glenn ^c  

^a Los Angeles ^*

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINAFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MIXTURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; PASTEURIZATION; SACROILIITIS; SEROLOGY; SPONDYLITIS; UNITED STATES; VERTEBRA; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZOONOSIS;

ABSCESS; BRUCELLOSIS; CALIFORNIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OSTEOMYELITIS; SACRUM; SPINAL DISEASES; SPONDYLITIS; TRAVEL;

EID: 0031056568     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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