Human brucellosis: An overview

Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 46-47

  Roushan, Mohammad Reza Hasanjani ^a   Ebrahimpour, Soheil ^a  

^a BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANAMNESIS; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASTHENIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW CULTURE; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; COOMBS TEST; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RISK; INSOMNIA; LETTER; NIGHT SWEAT; NONHUMAN; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERUM AGGLUTINATION TEST; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BONE MARROW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEMATOLOGY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LATERAL FLOW IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; SEROPREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84917705972     PISSN: 20086164     EISSN: 20086172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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