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Neurobrucellosis.
Brucellosis remains an important health problem in some parts of the world. The disease has virtually disappeared in Western countries but is still endemic in others. In Kuwait, with a population of 1.6 million, a total number of 1168 fresh cases of brucellosis were reported in 1985, an incidence of 68.9/100,000 population. The general presentation of brucellosis remains well recognized and is ...
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Brucellosis, which is endemic in Saudi Arabia, can present as a disease with multisystem involvement. Occasionally the organisms invade the central nervous system producing varied neurological manifestations. Often the clinical diagnosis of neurobrucellosis is not straight forward and is obscure. Certain criteria have to be fulfilled for the definitive diagnosis of neurobrucellosis. We report 2...
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BACKGROUND Neurobrucellosis is a disease consisting of a wide spectrum of complications such as peripheral neuropathy, cranial nerve involvement, ataxia, meningeal irritation, paraplegia, seizures, coma, and even death. The vestibulocochlear nerve seems to be the most commonly affected cranial nerve (10%). We present a patient with neurobrucellosis whose auditory perception and speech intelligi...
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Manifestation of nervous system involvement by neurobrucellosis, a treatable infection, is not well documented. We investigated patterns of nervous system involvement and determined if neuroimaging abnormalities correlated with clinical manifestations of neurobrucellosis. METHODS We reviewed 23 MR imaging studies (17 of brain, six of spine) and seven CT scans of brain i...
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archives of clinical infectious diseasesجلد ۱، شماره ۲، صفحات ۱۰۳-۱۰۷
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