WHAT IS CHRONIC BRUCELLOSIS?

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Article1 August 1951WHAT IS CHRONIC BRUCELLOSIS?WESLEY W. SPINK, M.D., F.A.C.P.WESLEY W. SPINK, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-35-2-358 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Excerpt"If only the schoolmen had measured instead of classifying, how much they might have learnt!"From—Science and the Modern World Alfred North Whitehead.Although brucellosis was defined as a human infection toward the close of the Nineteenth Century, subsequent understanding of the illness was confused by attempts at classifying the clinical forms of the disease. Brucellosis does have a variable clinical pattern. For this reason, it is understandable why Hughes,1in one of the earliest and best descriptions of the disease, classified brucellosis under four types—the malignant type, the undulatory type, intermittent type, and the irregular and mixed types. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Minneapolis, Minnesota*Presented at the Thirty-second Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, St. Louis, Mo., April 12, 1951.From the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Hospitals and Medical School, Minneapolis. 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MAGILL, M.D., SAMI IBRAHIM SAID, M.B.Some Biologic and Clinical Problems Related to Intracellular Parasitism in Brucellosis 1 August 1951Volume 35, Issue 2Page: 358-374KeywordsBrucellosisHospital medicineInfectious diseases ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1951 PDF downloadLoading ...