An infant with acute Brucellosis presenting with coombs-positive autoimmune hemolytic anemia: Is breastfeeding guilty for transmission?

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 509-512

  Apa, Hurşit ^a   Keskin, Şükran ^a   Gülfidan, Gamze ^a   Yaman, Yöntem ^a   Devrim, Ilker ^a  

^a Dr Behcet Uz Children's Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Brucellosis; Coombs positive autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BREAST FEEDING; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COOMBS POSITIVE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; COOMBS TEST; COUGHING; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; MILK; PALLOR; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; URINE COLOR; VOMITING; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANIMAL; BREAST MILK; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

BRUCELLA;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANIMALS; BREAST FEEDING; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; COOMBS TEST; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MILK; MILK, HUMAN;

EID: 84879910550     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1154     Document Type: Article

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