Brucellosis in a Singaporean with prolonged fever.

HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME IN TYPHOID FEVER AND BRUCELLOSIS

Hemophagocytic syndrome is a non-malignant process that is characterized clinically by fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, pancytopenia in peripheral blood, and reactive histiocytes in the bone marrow. Bacterial infectious diseases like typhoid fever and brucellosis and viral infections including CMV, herpes viruses, and Epstein-Barr virus are diagnosed as the cause of this syndrome. In thi...

Assessment Scientific Knowledge of Medical Interns about Four Common Infection Diseases in Fars

ABSTRACT The present study was designed to assess the knowledge of medical interns about four common infectious diseases; tuberculosis, brucellosis, typhoid fever and dysentery. This cross sectional study was done in Shiraz in 1999 and 2000. 211 interns properly filled our questionnaire which was prepared about tuberculosis. brucellosis, typhoid fever and bloody diarrhea for evaluation of thei...

A survey on human brucellosis "Malta fever" in IRAN (serelogical and bacteriological investigations)

Case report: Brucellosis: a re-emerging disease in Thailand.

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease prevalent in many countries, but it has been reported only once in Thailand, 36 years ago. We describe here two consecutive cases of brucellosis in Bangkok, Thailand. Both cases presented with prolonged fever and weight loss. Blood cultures taken from 2 patients yielded Brucella melitensis. The slide agglutination test of blood samples were also positive, with ...

گزارش یک مورد نادر بیمار مبتلا به بروسلوز با تظاهر ترومبوز ورید عمقی اندام تحتانی

  Background: Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that is common in developing countries such as Iran which is a serious medical impact. Vascular complications, including arterial and venous associated with Brucella infection, have rarely been reported. In a review of articles, it is clear that , only five cases of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the lower extremities and just one case of cerebra...