Human brucellosis, a heterogeneously distributed, delayed, and misdiagnosed disease in China

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 750-751

  Wang, Yufei ^a   Zhang, Wenyi ^a   Ke, Yuehua ^a   Zhen, Qing ^c   Yuan, Xitong ^a   Zou, Wen ^a   Li, Shenlong ^a   Sun, Yingjie ^d   Wang, Zhonghai ^d   Wang, Dali ^b   Cui, Buyun ^b   Song, Hongbin ^a   Huang, Liuyu ^a   Chen, Zeliang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Songyuan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUCELLOSIS; CHINA; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTAMINATED ANIMAL; DATA EXTRACTION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE DURATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; TRAVEL;

BRUCELLOSIS; CHINA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE;

EID: 84873619789     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis980     Document Type: Letter

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