Chronic hepatosplenic abscesses in brucellosis. Clinico-therapeutic features and molecular diagnostic approach

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 159-167

  Colmenero, Juan De Dios ^a   Isabel Queipo Ortuo, Maria ^a   Maria Reguera, José ^a   Angel Suarez Muoz, Miguel ^a   Martín Carballino, Segundo ^a   Morata, Pilar ^a  

^a HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Diagnosis; Liver and splenic abscess; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CALCIFICATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 0036194794     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(01)00344-3     Document Type: Article

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