Recurrent rhabdomyolysis and mild acute renal failure associated with acute Brucella infection [4]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 848-849

  Toprak, Omer ^a   Kaptan, Figen ^a   Cirit, Mustafa ^a   Ormen, Bahar ^a   Uzum, Atilla ^a   Ersoy, Rifki ^a   Turker, Nesrin ^a  

^a Ataturk Research and Training State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; RECURRENCE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 17144395585     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh703     Document Type: Letter

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