Brucellosis in infant after familial outbreak

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1319-1320

  Makis, Alexandros C ^a   Pappas, Georgios ^b   Galanakis, Emmanouel ^c   Haliasos, Nikolaos ^a   Siamopoulou, Antigoni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b Institute of Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANAMNESIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RIFAMPIN; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 48749125161     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1408.080325     Document Type: Letter

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