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New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2338-2342

  Dames, Shelby ^a,f   Tonnerre, Claude ^a   Saint, Sanjay ^b,c   Jones, Stephen R ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Legacy Good Samaritan and Emanuel Hospitals   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; IBUPROFEN; PARACETAMOL; RIFAMPICIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; APPETITE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FALLING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LANGUAGE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOLOGY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SPLENOMEGALY; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABATTOIRS; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; APPETITE; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GRANULOMA; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MEXICO; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAIN; SPLENOMEGALY; TRANSLATING; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 19644391157     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps041883     Document Type: Article

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