Human brucellosis in febrile patients seeking treatment at remote hospitals, northeastern Kenya, 2014–2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2160-2164

  Njeru, John ^a,b,c   Melzer, Falk ^a   Wareth, Gamal ^a,d   El Adawy, Hosny ^a,e   Henning, Klaus ^a   Pletz, Mathias W ^b   Heller, Regine ^b   Kariuki, Samuel ^c   Fèvre, Eric ^f,g   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ROSE BENGAL;

ADULT; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CONVALESCENCE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; HISTORY; HOSPITALIZATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84995872848     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2212.160285     Document Type: Article

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