Comment on: Epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory findings of patients with brucellosis in Hamadan, west of Iran.

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  • Manoochehr Karami
چکیده

In an interesting study recently published by your journal, Eini et al 1 addressed the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings among patients with brucellosis. They used hospital data in Hamadan. Accordingly, hospital admissions are selective and may lead to bias. Authors reported majority of patients (72.2%) were from rural areas in Hamadan City. This key finding has been supported by frequency of history of contact with infected animals, while, authors have cited the results of Haj Abdolbaghi et al. 2 with 15.67% and Haddadi et al 3

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of research in health sciences

دوره 13 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012