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A CASE OF DIAGNOSIS OF A RARE FORM OF BRUCELLOSIS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Intro: The most endemic area for brucellosis in Russia, is North-Caucasus Federal Region, where annual incidence rate is 10 cases per 100,000 population. According to world statistics, neurobrucellosis occurs in less than 5% of cases. Aim. To demonstrate
L. Ermakova, N. Pshenichnaya, G. Gopatsa
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P‐ANCA Systemic Vasculitis Induced by Brucellosis in an Elderly Male Patient
Case Reports in Rheumatology, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 One of the most prevalent causes of vasculitis is bacterial infection. An infection that causes anti‐neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)‐associated vasculitis (AAV) is uncommon and not reported frequently. We report a case of a 74‐year‐old male who presented with fever for ten days and was found to have brucellosis.
Mohammed Cheikh +4 more
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Cochlear implantation in neurobrucellosis: Two case reports
Acta Oto-Laryngologica Case Reports, 2022 Brucellosis is one of the most frequent zoonotic diseases worldwide. Central nervous system (CNS) involvment has been reported among approximately 5% of patients.
Afrah Alshalan +2 more
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Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 2008 In 5-10% of cases of brucellosis may lead to central nervous system manifestation presenting most often as a meningitis or meningoencephalitis. We report three neurobrucellosis who have different presentation. First patient; a 49-year-old-woman who developed diffuse cerebral white matter lesions as leukoencephalopathy associated with neurobrucellosis ...
Tuncel, Deniz +3 more
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Brucella‐Induced Acute Psychosis: A Novel Cause of Acute Psychosis
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Background. Infections have long been linked to psychosis and categorised within “secondary” psychoses. To date, there have been few reports of psychosis linked to brucellosis. This case report aims to present one such case. Case Presentation. A 31‐year‐old man was admitted to a general hospital with pyrexia, severe right upper quadrant pain, and an ...
Chi-Chi Obuaya +3 more
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Case Reports in Cardiology, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Implantable cardioverter defibrillator lead endocarditis due to Brucella melitensis is a rare and life‐threatening complication of brucellosis. Successful management requires a combination of medical treatment and device extraction. We present a case of relapsing brucellosis manifested as infective endocarditis colonizing the lead of the implantable ...
Bisher Sawaf +6 more
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International Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 Neurobrucellosis (NB) is a rare complication of brucellosis. NB presents with avariety of clinical manifestations, and the symptoms are always atypical. Our aim was to analyze the demographic characteristics, clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, imaging findings, treatments and outcomes of patients with NB.We retrospectively reviewed the data ...
Na, Zheng +8 more
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Hearing loss: an unusual presentation of neurobrucellosis: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023 Introduction Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease, caused by a Gram-negative coccobacillus of Brucella genus, transmitted to humans by animals, especially cattle.
Prem Kumar Sah +4 more
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CLINICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, LABORATORY AND IMAGING ASPECTS OF BRUCELLOSIS WITH AND WITHOUT NEUROLOGICAL INVOLVEMEN [PDF]
Acta Medica Iranica, 2007 Brucellosis is an endemic disease in our country. Neurobrucellosis occurs in 5 to 10% of cases, and can present at any stage of of the disease. This study was undertaken to evaluate clinical, epidemiological and paraclinical aspects of brucellosis with ...
M. Ghaffarpour +5 more
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Hearing loss: Can it be neurobrucellosis? [PDF]
Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2015 Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection transmitted from animals to humans mostly by ingestion through infected food prod¬ucts, direct contact with an infected animal.
Hacer Akturk +7 more
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