Human Brucella canis infections diagnosed by blood culture

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1183-1185

  Nomura, Atsushi ^a   Imaoka, Koichi ^b   Imanishi, Hajime ^a   Shimizu, Hideaki ^a   Nagura, Fumiko ^a   Maeda, Kayaho ^a   Tomino, Tatsuhito ^a   Fujita, Yoshiro ^c   Kimura, Masanobu ^b   Stein, Gerald H ^d  

^a CHUBU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c TOYOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DOXYCYCLINE; FOSFOMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA CANIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CULTURE MEDIUM; FATIGUE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT DURATION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTEREMIA; DOG; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BRUCELLA CANIS; BRUCELLOSIS; DOGS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 77954447069     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.090209     Document Type: Letter

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