Brucellosis and tuberculosis: Clinical overlap and pitfalls

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 823-825

  Dasari, Sowjanya ^a   Naha, Kushal ^a   Prabhu, Mukhyaprana ^a  

^a KASTURBA HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Drug resistance; Overlap; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRANULOMA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NIGHT SWEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPLENOMEGALY; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BRUCELLOSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE; OVERLAP; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; BRUCELLOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880584063     PISSN: 19957645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1995-7645(13)60145-5     Document Type: Article

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