Background: Osteoarticular involvement is one of the most common complications brucellosis and it can occur in up to two thirds patients infected. Vertebral during considered not only as prevalent localization but also severe one. Objectives: The aim present study was describe clinical magnetic resonance imaging features brucellar spondylodiscitis. Methods: We conducted a retrospective includin...

Background: Although rare in most developed countries, tuberculous and brucellar spondylodiscitis are still frequent the mediterranean countries. Management of may require a surgical intervention cases spinal cord or root compression, bone destructions deformities, unsuccessfull medical treatment large abcesses. Objectives: To study characteristics outcome surgically treated spondylodiscitis. M...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 20 January 2003 178 2 89-89 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2002 www.mja.com.au Snapshot A 55-YEAR-OLD taxi driver presented with a three-week history of intermittent sore throat associated with fever and rigors, which responded to paracetamol. On the morning of admission, he woke with severe aching pain in the left groin radiating to the scrot...

BACKGROUND In Australia, notification rates for chlamydia have increased fourfold since the early 1990s. An increasing incidence of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection would be expected to lead to a rise in the incidence of chlamydia related diseases. OBJECTIVES To determine trends in hospital admission rates for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy, and epididymo-orchitis...

Dr. B. E. McConnell?This old man was an N.H.S. patient of mine. He was the proprietor of four or five taxi-cabs, and still drove himself at the age of 75. He led an extremely active life up till admission to hospital. I saw him first, eighteen months ago when he had epididymo-orchitis, for which I gave sulphamezathine. He refused to go to hospital because of driving his taxi. I did not test his...

In this historical cohort study we identified, located, and, if living, interviewed 10,590 vasectomized men from four cities, along with a paired neighborhood control for each. The times between procedure data and interview or death ranged from under one to 41 years, with median equal to 7.9 years and with 2,318 pairs having ten or more years of follow-up. Participant reports of diseases or con...

Introduction: Brucellar spondylodiscitis is among the most typical forms of osteoarticular involvement that still challenges clinicians and scientists for early diagnosis. Case Presentation: We describe isolation Brucella melitensis from vertebrae in a man with who had osteoarthritis as an underlying condition. The patient showed negative results on blood samples' serological, molecular, cultur...

We report a new case of a brucellar liver abscess (brucelloma) in a young woman without previous remote brucellosis who presented with pronounced systemic and mild local symptoms. Brucelloma is the result of calcification of a granoulomatous reaction induced by persistent Brucella in macrophages. It represents a rare manifestation that follows previously undetected brucellosis. We describe the ...