Clinical features, complications and treatment outcome of childhood brucellosis in central Greece

Journal of Infection

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 257-262

  Tsolia, Maria ^a   Drakonaki, S ^b   Messaritaki, A ^a   Farmakakis, Th ^a   Kostaki, M ^a   Tsapra, H ^b   Karpathios, Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; GOAT; GREECE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MONOCYTOSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHEEP; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036590333     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jinf.2002.1000     Document Type: Article

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