Clinical characteristics and outcome of Brucella endocarditis

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 85-88

  Gunes, Yilmaz ^a   Tuncer, Mustafa ^a   Guntekin, Unal ^a   Akdag, Serkan ^a   Gumrukcuoglu, Hasan Ali ^a   Karahocagil, Mustafa ^a   Ekim, Hasan ^b  

^a Department of Cardiology ^*  (United States)

^b YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PROGNOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRUCELLA;

EID: 67149128148     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2008.070436     Document Type: Article

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