Age and duration of disease as factors affecting clinical findings and sacroiliitis in brucellosis.
OBJECTIVE: Brucellosis may be seen in any age group, but it still involves young and middle aged adults more frequently. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between age and the duration of disease on clinical findings of brucellosis in adults in this study. PATIENTS AND METHOD: One hundred a...
| Publicado en: | Infection Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 434 - 438 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2007
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