Table 1.

Epidemiological, clinical, serological, and molecular results of 50 patients with brucellosis

Characteristics	Values
No. of patients (male)	50 (36 male)
Age, mean age ± SD years	43.6 ± 14.5 years (range 15–75)
Rural residence, no. (%)	29 (58%)
Exposure history, no. (%)	29 (58%)
Fever, no. (%)	37 (80.4%)
Arthralgias, no. (%)	25 (50%)
Low back pain, no. (%)	25 (50%)
Complication involvement, no. (%)	22 (43.5%)
Sacroiliitis, no. (%)	6 (27.3%)
Knee arthritis, no. (%)	10 (45.5%)
Wrist arthritis, no. (%)	2 (9.1%)
Epididymo-orchitis, no. (%)	4 (18.2%)
SAT ≥ 1/160, no. (%)	43 (86%)
Antihuman globulin Coombs test, no. (%)	7 (14%)
Patients with positive nested PCR, no. (%)	50 (100%)
Relapsed patients with positive PCR, no. (%)	5 (10%)

PCR = polymerase chain reaction; SAT = serum agglutination test; SD = standard deviation.