ALLMedicine™ Brucellosis Center

Jun 25th, 2022 - Ovine brucellosis caused by Brucella ovis is a major cause of reproductive failure in sheep. This study aimed to evaluate transplacental infection and pathogenicity of B.ovis wild type strain ATCC 25,840 (WT B.ovis) and the candidate vaccine strai...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - Serum agglutination test plus exposure history were used to diagnose most cases of human brucellosis in 2 China provinces. After appropriate treatment, 13.3% of acute brucellosis cases progressed to chronic disease; arthritis was an early predicto...

Jun 18th, 2022 - Neurobrucellosis is an uncommon serious complication of brucellosis. Diagnosis of neurobrucellosis could be difficult due to non-specific clinical and radiological findings. So, in endemic regions, neurobrucellosis should be included in the differ...

Jun 10th, 2022 - The purpose of this study was to investigate renal function in patients with brucellosis before and at the end of gentamicin therapy. To ensure the safety of therapeutic doses of gentamicin, renal functions in brucellosis patients were monitored r...

Jun 9th, 2022 - Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection caused by the consumption of contaminated raw milk and dairy products. This study aims to compare survival rates of Brucella abortus RB51 and S19 vaccine strains to that of virulent B. abortus 2308 strain during...

Jan 26th, 2022 - This retrospective study will be conducted on medical files. Patients will be mainly selected on : A proved osteoarticular infection (OAI) diagnosed in the department of rheumatology of the René Dubos hospital from 1° January 2010 to 31 December 2...

Jun 3rd, 2021 - Objective: This study aims to examine Brucella serology and history of brucellosis in patients with lumbar Modic changes (MCs) type 1, considering results from cross-sectional and case-control comparisons. Design: In comparative cross-sectional de...

Oct 29th, 2020 - Background: In households heavily dependent on livestock, declining availability of forage is associated with decreased consumption of animal source foods such as milk and meat, and consequently decline in child nutritional status. Populations liv...

May 14th, 2020 - Brucellosis is present in humans and animals in nearly 170 countries and regions around the world. In the 1950s and 1960s, brucellosis was seriously prevalent in China. In the 1970s, the epidemic gradually declined. It was basically controlled in ...

Mar 18th, 2020 - Brucellosis is a common zoonotic infection in many parts of the world including the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. Neurobrucellosis may develop at any stage of disease and may have widely variable manifestations, including encephaliti...

Nov 9th, 2021 - THE CASE A 72-year-old man was admitted to our Dallas hospital with a 4-day history of fevers and new-onset urinary frequency. He did not report any joint pain, sick contacts, or recent travel or recall any skin findings (rashes, insect bites).

Apr 22nd, 2021 - Rat-ting out coronavirus Did you know there is a possibility that giant rodents could rat out coronavirus? Not many people are keen on the presence of a 3-foot-long African giant pouched rat, but they have already been trained to sniff out disease.

Nov 6th, 2020 - BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 6,000 people in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province in northwest China, have tested positive for the bacterial disease brucellosis, the local government was cited as saying, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a vac...

Sep 16th, 2019 - Zoonotic diseases, or zoonoses, are on the rise. That may first bring to mind exotic diseases like Ebola, but the reality is that many zoonotic infections happen closer to home, often during everyday activities. In 2018, we saw an outbreak of psit...

Mar 7th, 2019 - Federal health officials are investigating a possible case of exposure to bacteria from raw milk sold at a farm in Pennsylvania. The investigation comes after a New York resident became sick in November. The patient drank raw milk purchased from M...