Brucellosis

Human brucellosis

Dear Editor, The recent report on “human brucellosis” is very interesting (1). Indeed, brucellosis is a zoonosis. As noted by Roushan et al., this disease can be seen in “the Mediterranean areas, the south and the center of America, Africa, Asia, Arab peninsula, Indian subcontinent and the Middle East (1).” Mir et al. noted that this infection should be included in the list of differential diag...

Chronic Brucellosis

disease. That it should be so rare in India is surprising considering that Polding (1947) reported that 10 per cent to 50 per cent of aborting Indian cattle in certain rural areas were infected with brucellosis and so long as we have brucellosis among cattle we will have the disease among human beings. The fact however is that even 85 per cent of cases of acute brucellosis are missed, being tak...

Human brucellosis.

BACKGROUND Human brucellosis has a serious medical impact worldwide, and its eradication poses major difficulties. Although human brucellosis is relatively rare in the United States (approximately 100 cases per year), there is concern that this disease is largely underdiagnosed and underreported. Additionally, immigrants from endemic areas are arriving to this country, and Brucella species are ...

Ocular brucellosis.

Though brucellosis has been eradicated from many countries, it remains a health problem in many developing countries. We report hereon a 34-year-old woman who presented with recurrent attacks of uveitis unresponsive to treatment with steroids. She was found to have systemic brucellosis, and Brucella melitensis was isolated from a paravertebral abscess. The condition responded to systemic antibi...

human brucellosis