Neurobrucellosis: Report of a rare disease in 20 Iranian patients referred to a tertiary hospital

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 143-148

  Ranjbar, M ^a   Rezaiee, A A ^b   Hashemi, S H ^a   Mehdipour, S ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Sina Hospital Hamedan   (Iran)

^c Department of General Practice ^*  (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIFAMOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; APHASIA; ATAXIA; BACKACHE; BLURRED VISION; BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROBRUCELLOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAPILLEDEMA; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SEIZURE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STROKE; STUPOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; RARE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYRADICULOPATHY; PREVALENCE; RARE DISEASES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

EID: 67649864067     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2009.15.1.143     Document Type: Review

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