Clinical Manifestations in 82 Neurobrucellosis Patients from Kosovo
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Clinical Manifestations in 82 Neurobrucellosis Patients from Kosovo
BACKGROUND Central nervous system involvement is a serious complication of brucellosis with various incidence and various clinical presentations. PATIENTS AND METHODS Hospitalized patients in University Clinical Centre, Clinic for Infectious diseases in Prishtina, with laboratory-confirmed brucellosis, were analyzed, a brucellosis-endemic region. Among the 648 confirmed cases with brucellosis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Materia Socio Medica
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1512-7680
DOI: 10.5455/msm.2016.28.408-411