Acute brucella meningomyeloencephalo - Spondylosis in a teenage male

African Health Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-72

  Kyebambe, Peterson Stephen ^a  

^a Kabale Regional Referral Hospital   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; QUININE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN MALARIA; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEVER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIA; HERPES LABIALIS; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENINGOMYELOENCEPHALOSPONDYLOSIS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; OSTEOPHYTE; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ACUTE DISEASE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; SPONDYLOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BRUCELLOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 33646066309     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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