Human brucellosis is a potentially life-threatening multisystem disease. During the first week of infection, IgM antibodies against lipopolysaccharide antigens appear in the serum, followed by IgG antibodies as early as the second week. Both antibody isotypes peak during the fourth week, and the use of antibiotics was associated with a decline of both IgM and IgG class antibodies. The diagnosis...

we report a rare case of brucellosis presenting with pleural and pericardial effusions in a 35 year-old male rancher in iran with fever and dyspnea. such findings should prompt inclusion of brucellosis in the differential diagnosis in endemic areas.

Background: Brucellosis is the most common global zoonosis and an important public health problem in many parts of the world including Iran. Diagnosis of brucellosis is frequently difficult to establish and conventional methods are not always successful in identifying the organisms. Rapid detection of Brucella species by an automated blood culture system and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) may ...

Brucellosis is a widespread zoonotic disease causing considerable economic and public health problems. Despite animal vaccination, brucellosis remains endemic in some areas such as Iran, especially in the western Iranian province of Hamadan. We sought to detect some of the most common virulence-associated genes in Brucella isolated from human blood cultures to determine the prevalence of some v...

Human brucellosis has reemerged as a serious public health threat to the Bedouin population of southern Israel in recent years. Little is known about its economic implications derived from elevated healthcare utilization (HCU). Our objective was to estimate the HCU costs associated with human brucellosis from the insurer perspective. A case-control retrospective study was conducted among Clalit...

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Background and Aims: Brucellosis is endemic in Turkey. Since it affects many organs and the symptoms are non-specific, the diagnosis by clinical findings is difficult and may be easily missed. Many serological tests have been used for the diagnosis of human brucellosis. This study compared the diagnostic value of the Brucella standard tube agglutination test (SAT) with that of ELISA (Brucella s...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that remains endemic worldwide. Its clinical manifestations and focal complications are often troublesome in making a diagnosis. Involvement of the respiratory system in brucellosis is an acknowledged but rare event that is only occasionally described in literature. We describe 37 cases of respiratory involvement during the course of brucellosis that presented ...

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...

brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that is widely distributed throughout the developing countries.in this review, an overview of the epidemiological and epizootic status of brucellosis in islamic republic of iran is presented. in iran, the disease was first recognized in 1932, which is now endemic in the entire country. the first animal vaccination program was carried out in 1949. brucellosis ha...