Brucella endocarditis, a report of 14 cases (1991-2009)

Journal of Infection

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-92

  Keshtkar Jahromi, Maryam ^a   Boroumand, Mohammadali ^b   Razavi, Seyed Mostafa ^a   Gholamin, Sharareh ^a   Haghighat, Babak ^b   Hashemi, Mohammad Jafar ^c   Khani, Mohammad ^a   Keshtkar Jahromi, Marzieh ^a   Naghili, Behrooz ^d  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE; ARTHRALGIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COOMBS TEST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MALE; MILK; MITRAL VALVE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACROILIITIS; SEPSIS; SEROLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953812190     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2010.03.027     Document Type: Letter

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