Brucellosis is not a major cause of febrile illness in patients at public health care facilities in Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam

Journal of Infection

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-15

  Nga, Tran T T ^a   de Vries, Peter J ^b   Abdoel, Theresia H ^c   Smits, Henk L ^c  

^a CHO RAY HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^b Division of Infectious Diseases   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute undifferentiated fever; Brucellosis; Epidemiology; Point of care; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; ROSE BENGAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROCONVERSION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROSE BENGAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIETNAM;

EID: 33745509784     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.09.016     Document Type: Article

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