Update on brucellosis: Therapeutic challenges

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 36, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Solera, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aminoglycoside; Brucellosis; Doxycycline; Emerging infectious disease; Rifampicin; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MONOTHERAPY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 77957933155     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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