Table 1.
Frequency of clinical characteristics in patients with brucellosis, as reported in our and other studies
| Percent of patients reporting condition |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literature reference | fever (symptom) | malaise | night per-spiration | arthralgia | fever | hepato-megaly | spleno-megaly |
| Aygen et al (14) |
80 |
90 |
84 |
82 |
39 |
21 |
14 |
| Yinnon (18) |
96 |
33 |
ND* |
35 |
ND |
55 |
69 |
| Memish et al (19) |
91 |
ND |
19 |
66 |
84 |
6 |
7 |
| Andriopoulos et al (20) |
100 |
97 |
96 |
87 |
ND |
25 |
51 |
| Shehabi et al (21) |
100 |
ND |
88 |
60 |
ND |
54 |
61 |
| Demiroglu et al (22) |
80 |
86 |
78 |
87 |
ND |
ND |
ND |
| Tasbakan et al (23) |
94 |
96 |
92 |
82 |
97 |
38 |
60 |
| Pourbagher et al (24) |
55 |
76 |
53 |
85 |
ND |
6 |
8 |
| Trujillo et al (25) |
100 |
77 |
96 |
81 |
ND |
10 |
12 |
| Buchanan et al (26) |
ND |
95 |
93 |
17 |
95 |
ND |
ND |
| Kokoglu et al (27) |
78 |
ND |
72 |
78 |
41 |
27 |
36 |
| Present study, No. (%) | 419 (76) | 377 (68) | 394 (72) | 438 (80) | 357 (65) | 273 (50) | 159 (29) |
*Abbreviation: ND – not determined.