Acute Q fever and brachial neuritis: Case report and literature review

Infection

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 400-402

  Post, J J ^a   Konecny, P ^a   Lloyd, A R ^b   Jones, P D ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; DOXYCYCLINE; OXYCODONE; PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE COURSE; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSESTHESIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NEURITIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; Q FEVER; SEROLOGY; STEROID THERAPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEURITIS; HUMANS; MALE; Q FEVER;

EID: 0036448372     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-002-2099-9     Document Type: Article

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