A worker from Portugal with fever and nonproductive cough;Fieber und trockener husten bei einem bauarbeiter aus Portugal

Praxis

Volumn 86, Issue 31-32, 1997, Pages 1215-1219

  Wiesli, P ^a   Flepp, M ^a   Greminger, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄTSSPITAL ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Cough; Fever

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; ETHNOLOGY; GERMANY; GOAT; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PORTUGAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; COUGH; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GERMANY; GOATS; HUMANS; MALE; PORTUGAL; RIFAMPIN; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0031591637     PISSN: 16618157     EISSN: 16618165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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