Brucella abortus endocarditis.
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چکیده
T HE purpose of this report is to describe the successful treatment of a case of bacterial endocarditis due to Brucella abortus. As far as I have been able to discover at the date of writing, no successfully treated case of this disease has been reported previously, with the exception of a case of mixed bacterial endocarditis presented in 1954 by Quinn and Brown.' A second case of treated Br. abortus endocarditis, referred to by Keefer and Hewitt,2 is sketchily described and the follow-up seems brief, being only 1 month.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 1 4714 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1951