Abstract
We have reviewed the clinical presentation of 100 consecutive culture positive cases of brucellosis which came under our care during the last two years. Of these, six had atypical presentations and but for the routine practice of sending blood for brucella culture, the diagnosis would have been missed. The unusual presentations included a 19 year old boy presenting as an acute abdomen ending in laparotomy, a 52 year old man presenting with a psoas abscess, a 29 year old woman presenting with a transient perinephric mass, a 75 year old man with an acute flare up of his osteoarthritis, a 65 year old diabetic man presenting in an insulin-resistant diabetic state and a 35 year old man presenting with a cauda equina syndrome.
Full text
PDF
Selected References
These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
- AGUILAR J. A., ELVIDGE A. R. Intervertebral disk disease caused by the Brucella organism. J Neurosurg. 1961 Jan;18:27–33. doi: 10.3171/jns.1961.18.1.0027. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Buchanan T. M., Faber L. C., Feldman R. A. Brucellosis in the United States, 1960-1972. An abattoir-associated disease. Part I. Clinical features and therapy. Medicine (Baltimore) 1974 Nov;53(6):403–413. doi: 10.1097/00005792-197411000-00001. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Glasgow M. M. Brucellosis of the spine. Br J Surg. 1976 Apr;63(4):283–288. doi: 10.1002/bjs.1800630408. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- SCHIRGER A., NICHOLS D. R., MARTIN W. J., WELLMAN W. E., WEED L. A. Brucellosis: experiences with 224 patients. Ann Intern Med. 1960 Apr;52:827–837. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-52-4-827. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Torres-Rojas J., Taddonio R. F., Sanders C. V. Spondylitis caused by Brucella abortus. South Med J. 1979 Sep;72(9):1166–1169. doi: 10.1097/00007611-197909000-00026. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Young E. J. Human brucellosis. Rev Infect Dis. 1983 Sep-Oct;5(5):821–842. doi: 10.1093/clinids/5.5.821. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]