Ocular Disease due to Brucellosis

Ocular Disease Due to Brucellosis.

Ocular disease due to brucellosis.

ALL the chronic granulomatous infections may occasionally give rise to ocular disease, and tuberculosis and syphilis are the best known in Great Britain. Brucellosis is an infection which should, at least in its chronic forms, be regarded as an important member of this group, and ought to be remembered as a possibility when the cause of certain eye diseases is being investigated. Standard text-...

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...

Ocular Manifestations of Brucellosis

Brucellosis is considered a zoonotic disease which is still an important health problem in endemic areas such as the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Asia. Brucellosis is a sys‐ temic infection that might affect any organ or system in the body. Ocular involvement has been reported in 21% of brucellosis patients. The most common ocular manifestations of brucellosis were considered as anterior...

encephalomyelitis due to brucellosis

introduction human brucellosis is a public health problem worldwide. neurobrucellosis is a rare and severe form of systemic infection and has a broad range of clinical syndromes. case presentation we reported a 21-year-old woman who was referred to our clinic with a subacute onset of fever, myalgia, and weakness of right foot, which gradually progressed and involved lower limbs and culminated i...