Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis as a Cutaneous Manifestation of Systemic Infection Caused by Brucella melitensis

Cutis

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-27

  Nagore, Eduardo ^a,b   Sánchez Motilla, José M ^a   Navarro, Vicente ^a   Febrer, M Isabel ^a   Aliaga, Adolfo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALLERGIC VASCULITIS; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BIOPSY; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; RIFAMPIN; SKIN; TETRACYCLINE; VASCULITIS, HYPERSENSITIVITY;

EID: 0032619256     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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