Chronic Brucellosis in General Practice

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...

PRACTICE DIAGNOSIS IN GENERAL PRACTICE Chronic cough in adults

The diagnostic dilemma Chronic cough is somewhat arbitrarily defined as any cough with a duration of eight weeks. It is common in primary care. In one postal survey of 11 000 patients registered with four general practices, 14% of men and 10% of women reported coughing on more than half the days in the year. In practice, smokers rarely consult about their cough because they assume (usually corr...

Chronic fatigue syndrome in Army general practice.

Symptomatology of chronic brucellosis.

McDevitt, D. G. (1973). British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 30, 385-389. Symptomatology of chronic brucellosis. A survey of the occurrence of symptoms commonly attributed to chronic brucellosis was carried out by questionnaire in four different occupational groups in Northern Ireland-veterinary surgeons woiking in private practice, veterinary surgeons employed by the Ministry of Agriculture...

Chronic hepatic brucellosis

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...