Presentation, complications, and treatment outcome of brucellosis in Turkish children

Pediatrics International

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 114-119

  Tanir, Gonul ^a,b   Tufekci, Sehra B ^a   Tuygun, Nilden ^a  

^a DR SAMI ULUS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Childhood

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISKITIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; KNEE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MONARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TURKEY;

EID: 60849128249     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2008.02661.x     Document Type: Article

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