BRUCELLA SENSITIZATION: A CLINICAL EVALUATION
Authors: W DARLEY, R W GORDON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1947)

Article1 April 1947BRUCELLA SENSITIZATION: A CLINICAL EVALUATIONWARD DARLEY, M.D., F.A.C.P., R. W. GORDON, M.D., F.A.C.P.WARD DARLEY, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, R. W. GORDON, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-26-4-528 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn a recent paper dealing with the laboratory diagnosis of undulant fever, Lee Foshay,9 when discussing the chronic types of the infection, made the following significant statement: ". . . We must expect many current diagnostic errors due to imperfect understanding of the clinical aspects of the disease, to imperfections in our laboratory tests, to misuse of these tests and to misinterpretation of their results."A comprehensive review of the literature as it pertains to chronic brucellosis,3, 4, 6, 7, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37while impressive as to evidence favoring the frequent occurrence...Bibliography1. ANGLEALGIE FEWH: Chronic brucellosis (undulant fever); analytical study of the positive reactors among school children, Ann. Int. Med., 1939, xii, 1189-1193. Google Scholar2. ANGLEALGIEMORGAN FEWHD: Brucellosis; studies emphasizing strain variation in serologic testing, Jr. Lab. and Clin. Med., 1942, xxvii, 1259-1263. Google Scholar3. BENNING HM: Chronic brucellosis; success of treatment with brucellin, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1946, cxxx, 320-325. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. CALDER RM: Chronic brucellosis, South. Med. Jr., 1939, xxxii, 451-460. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Denver, Colorado*Presented at the Twenty-seventh Annual Session, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, May 16, 1946.From the Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Hospitals. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byRHEUMATISM AND ARTHRITIS REVIEW OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE OF RECENT YEARS (TENTH RHEUMATISM REVIEW)* Part IIWILLIAM D. ROBINSON, M.D., F.A.C.P., EDWARD W. BOLAND, M.D., F.A.C.P., JOSEPH J. BUNIM, M.D., F.A.C.P., DARRELL C. CRAIN, M.D., F.A.C.P., EPHRAIM P. ENGLEMAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., WALLACE GRAHAM, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C), L. MAXWELL LOCKIE, M.D., F.A.C.P., MAX M. MONTGOMERY, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHARLES RAGAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., MARIAN W. ROPES, M.D., F.A.C.P., EDWARD F. ROSENBERG, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHARLEY J. 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