BACKGROUND Brucellosis is one of the most common infectious diseases in some areas of Iran. Brucellosis has various clinical manifestations and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of many infectious and non-infectious diseases. The aims of this study were to determine the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings of the disease in patients with brucellosis in Hamadan, wes...

OBJECTIVE To report a rare case of brucellosis with myelo-dysplastic syndrome (MDS). CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 70-year-old woman presented with pancytopenia and fever of unknown origin (FUO). The initial diagnosis was brucellosis; the woman was treated with doxycycline and rifampin against Brucella melitensis but was later diagnosed as suffering from MDS. She was immediately tr...

Human brucellosis is mainly caused by contact with Brucella-infected animals and their secretions and carcasses. Individuals who are continuously in contact with animals are considered to be at a high risk but only some show symptoms and are diagnosed as cases of brucellosis. Here, we showed that asymptomatic brucellosis infections occur among humans. Asymptomatic infections mainly result from ...

results in this setting, detection rate of the disease is 34.86%, if the high normal titer for the wrights test titer assumed 1/80 and is 44.95% if the titer assumed 1/40, while elisa test had detection rate of 58.72% for those suspicious cases. furthermore, the detection rate for diagnosis of active brucellosis with 2me tests was 17.54% with high normal titer of 1/80 and was 59.64% with a high...

BACKGROUND Human brucellosis is prevalent in both rural and urban Uganda, yet most cases of the disease in humans go unnoticed and untreated because of inaccurate diagnosis, which is often due to the disease not manifesting in any symptoms. This study was undertaken to describe trends in laboratory-confirmed human brucellosis cases at three health facilities in pastoralist communities in South-...

Background: Skeletal complication of brucellosis is common in endemic region of brucellosis, but its frequency has not been clearly determined. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of skeletal complication in brucellosis patients in Babol, north of Iran. Methods: From 2005-2015, 1252 cases of brucellosis were diagnosed at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Ayatollah Rouha...

This study was performed to evaluate commercial brucella immunoglobulin G and M enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (IgG and IgM ELISA) kits for the diagnosis of human brucellosis and to suggest a candidate prognostic marker for human brucellosis. We determined the serum levels of brucella IgG, IgM, C-reactive protein (CRP), soluble CD14 (sCD14), and neopterin in patients with brucellosis and com...

Brucellar septic arthritis has become extremely rare in Western developed countries since bovine brucellosis has been successfully eradicated. Nevertheless, we should remain vigilant for this disease, as brucellosis is still endemic in many parts of the world. The authors present the rare manifestation of a brucellar septic arthritis of the knee joint, associated with a lytic lesion of the prox...

Background Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection transmitted to humans through direct contact with infected animals, their products, or excreta such as urine or dung. Brucellosis is associated with significant morbidity in Southwestern Uganda, where cattle and goat rearing are a major economic industry. As in many settings in sub-Saharan Africa, diagnosis and management of brucellosis remain a ch...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease common in developing countries. Vascular complications, including arterial and venous, associated with Brucella infection have rarely been reported. A case of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) developing after a diagnosis of acute brucellosis in a young milkman is presented. A 26-year-old man presented with pain in the right leg. The patient's medical history includ...