Serum cytokine levels in patients with acute brucellosis and their relation to the traditional inflammatory markers

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 149-153

  Demirdag, Kutbettin ^a   Ozden, Mehmet ^a   Kalkan, Ahmet ^a   Godekmerdan, Ahmet ^a   Kilic, S Sirri ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Cytokine; Inflammatory marker; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; DOXYCYCLINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; RIFAMPICIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0242643583     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(03)00207-4     Document Type: Article

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