Blood culture of Brucella, challenges and limitations

Case report and seeded blood culture study of Brucella bacteremia.

Diagnosis of brucellosis requires prompt detection and identification of the coccobacillus for appropriate patient management, as the organism is associated with a potentially severe outcome. In a recent experience, an 18-year-old migrant farm worker presented at a local hospital with nonspecific symptoms. A significant Brucella titer of 2,560 was followed by the recovery of a gram-negative coc...

Isolation, identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of brucella blood culture isolates.

UNLABELLED Isolation of slowly growing and fastidious Brucella spp strains from clinical specimens is difficult, because of varying factors, including species specificities, stadium of disease, and previous antibiotic treatment of the patients. The use of automated blood culture systems has overcome some cultivation problems. The automated identification system such as VITEK 2 compact allows mo...

Human Brucella canis Infections Diagnosed by Blood Culture

This report demonstrates an apparently paradoxical inverse relationship between a positive RDT result and severity of illness among patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009. This observation cannot be explained by differences in the time to access to medical care, performance of RDT (7), or prior antiviral therapy. Variants of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus may preferentially infect the lower respiratory...

isolation of brucella from blood culture of hospitalized brucellosis patients

background brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that is endemic in iran. appropriate and rapid diagnosis has a vital role in public health improvement. low isolation rate of the organism has reported frequently in various reports. the present study was conducted to determine the isolation rate of organism in culture from collected specimens of hospitalized patients who were not under antibiotic th...

Culture Media for Brucella.