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Penumonic presentation of brucellosis.

Meenu Singh1, Manju Salaria1, Lata Kumar1.   

Abstract

Brucellosis is a rare disease in children. Lung involvement is an uncommon presentation of brucellosis. The authors are presenting a child with brucellosis, who presented with predominant pulmonary involvement. It was an eight-year-old child who was referred to us a case of non-resolving pneumonia. Brucella agglutination test was suggestive of brucellosis. He responded to the combination of doxycycline and rifampicin.

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Keywords:  Brucellosis; Children; Pneumonia

Year:  2005        PMID: 28378214     DOI: 10.1007/BF02760583

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Indian J Pediatr        ISSN: 0019-5456            Impact factor:   1.967


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Authors:  A Sachdev; R Vohra; S Bijarnia
Journal:  Indian Pediatr       Date:  2001-12       Impact factor: 1.411

Review 2.  Pneumonia as the sole presentation of brucellosis.

Authors:  F Abu-Ekteish; K Kakish
Journal:  Respir Med       Date:  2001-09       Impact factor: 3.415

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Journal:  Clin Radiol       Date:  1988-01       Impact factor: 2.350

4.  Childhood brucellosis: a study of 102 cases.

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Journal:  Pediatr Infect Dis J       Date:  1990-02       Impact factor: 2.129

Review 5.  Review of pulmonary brucellosis: a case report on brucellar pulmonary empyema.

Authors:  J A García-Rodriguez; J E García-Sánchez; J L Muñoz Bellido; V Ortiz de la Tabla; J Bellido Barbero
Journal:  Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  1988-09       Impact factor: 2.803

6.  Brucella pneumonia.

Authors:  J P Sanford
Journal:  Semin Respir Infect       Date:  1997-03

7.  Evaluation of an immunocapture-agglutination test (Brucellacapt) for serodiagnosis of human brucellosis.

Authors:  A Orduña; A Almaraz; A Prado; M P Gutierrez; A Garcia-Pascual; A Dueñas; M Cuervo; R Abad; B Hernández; B Lorenzo; M A Bratos; A R Torres
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2000-11       Impact factor: 5.948

8.  Azithromycin and gentamicin therapy for the treatment of humans with brucellosis.

Authors:  J Solera; J L Beato; E Martínez-Alfaro; J C Segura; E de Tomas
Journal:  Clin Infect Dis       Date:  2001-01-24       Impact factor: 9.079

9.  Ciprofloxacin and rifampicin versus doxycycline and rifampicin in the treatment of brucellosis.

Authors:  C Agalar; S Usubutun; R Turkyilmaz
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  1999-08       Impact factor: 3.267

Review 10.  Serologic diagnosis of human brucellosis: analysis of 214 cases by agglutination tests and review of the literature.

Authors:  E J Young
Journal:  Rev Infect Dis       Date:  1991 May-Jun
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