Neuro-Brucellosis
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Neuro-brucellosis in children.
Brucellosis is an infection caused by gram negative cocobacilli (Brucellae). Presentation is usually non-specific and diagnosis depends on high index of suspicion. Nervous system involvement in children is rare as only 47 cases were reported until 1998. We are reporting two patients with neurobrucellosis. The first case was an 8-year-old boy who presented with papillodeoma, and neck stiffness o...
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disease. That it should be so rare in India is surprising considering that Polding (1947) reported that 10 per cent to 50 per cent of aborting Indian cattle in certain rural areas were infected with brucellosis and so long as we have brucellosis among cattle we will have the disease among human beings. The fact however is that even 85 per cent of cases of acute brucellosis are missed, being tak...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Neurological Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0022-510X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2015.09.269