Introduction: brucella endocarditis is a rare but severe complication of brucellosis. Although it is observed in less than 2% of the brucellosis cases, it is the main cause responsible for up to 80% of infection-related deaths in brucellosis. case report: Herein, we present a case of brucella endocarditis that developed on a native aortic valve. the diagnosis was proven by positive blood cultur...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that remains endemic worldwide. Its clinical manifestations and focal complications are often troublesome in making a diagnosis. Involvement of the respiratory system in brucellosis is an acknowledged but rare event that is only occasionally described in literature. We describe 37 cases of respiratory involvement during the course of brucellosis that presented ...

Colitis is a rare but serious and life-threatening complication of brucellosis. The association of infective colitis and brucellosis has formerly been reported. However, to our knowledge, we report herein the first case of lymphocytic colitis due to brucellosis. A 44-year-old man presented with myalgia, chronic diarrhea and intermittent vomiting. Laboratory tests showed severe hypokalemia with ...

Reactive hemophagocytic syndrome is clinically characterized by fever, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, and coagulopathy, and is histologically characterized by excessive proliferation and activation of histiocytes or macrophages. It can occur with systemic infections, immunodeficiency, or underlying malignancy. Brucellosis is one of the rare causes of hemophagocytosis. Herein we report an 11-...

Medicine Service of the Hospital Condes de Castro Guimarães, Cascais Received for publication on the 18 November 97 Abstract The hepatic pseudotumoural localization of brucellosis is rare: only 29 cases have been described in the literature. The authors present a case of chronic hepatic pseudotumoural brucellosis, in a patient who underwent a partial hepatectomy, 14 years earlier, prior to this...

BACKGROUND Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease mostly transmitted to humans through consumption of unpasteurized dairy products and can lead to a systemic disease with any organ involvement. In this report, we describe a case of brucellosis-induced avascular necrosis of the hip. Brucellosis was diagnosed through serological tests, and avascular necrosis of the femoral head was confirmed by pelvic...

We report a rare case of brucellosis with Parkinsonian-like tremor and simple partial motor seizure. This patient worked as a sheep butcher and the sheep were imported from brucellosis-endemic areas. He presented with classical manifestations of brucellosis; infection was confirmed using the Rose Bengal Plate and Standard Tube Agglutination tests. The patient also suffered from headache, partia...

The index case in this report was clinically, epidemiologically, and serologically proved to be suffering from acute brucellosis acquired in Britain and complicated by acute intractable reactive arthritis. HLA tissue typing was A1, A2, B7, and B27. As there is no information available about HLA typing in brucellosis in Britain, we examined further cases of human brucellosis retrospectively. Thr...

Brucellosis is an infectious disease that affects many organ systems. Osteoarticular involvement, especially spondylitis, is the most common complication of brucellosis, but psoas abscess is very rare. Serological tests at diagnosis of the disease are very valuable and most widely used. Herein, we report a case of psoas abscess secondary to brucellar spondylitis. In this case, interestingly, th...

Winchester, UK) collected 12 days after fever onset was positive. Antimicrobial drug treatment was changed to doxycycline and gentamicin. However, low-grade fever and low back pain developed 2 days after administration of gentamicin. The back pain was attributed to muscle pain and was almost completely relieved by 2-day treatment with a nonsteroidal antiinfl ammatory drug. Whole-body gallium sc...