Importance of Culture for Diagnosing Human Brucellosis / 감염과화학요법
Infection and Chemotherapy
; : 404-406, 2010.
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| ID: wpr-11006
المكتبة المسؤولة:
WPRO
ABSTRACT
Human brucellosis is a newly emerging infectious disease in Korea, and the number of the patients with this disease has rapidly increased in recent years. To evaluate the most reliable method in diagnosing human brucellosis, a retrospective study was conducted. Medical records of patients admitted or followed-up at the outpatient department of a tertiary care university hospital during the past 5 years were reviewed. Among a total of 32 human brucellosis patients (24 males and 8 females), 21 (65.6%) were positive for standard tube agglutination test (STA) but negative for blood or bone marrow culture, 7 (21.9%) were positive for both STA and culture, and 4 (12.5%) were STA negative but culture positive. Based on these findings, we recommend that physicians include blood and/or bone marrow culture to obtain definitive diagnosis when clinical symptoms and signs strongly suggest the human brucellosis, even when STA is negative.
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النص الكامل:
1
الفهرس:
WPRIM
الموضوع الرئيسي:
Outpatients
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Tertiary Healthcare
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Bone Marrow
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Brucellosis
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Agglutination Tests
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Medical Records
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Retrospective Studies
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging
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Korea
نوع الدراسة:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
المحددات:
Humans
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Male
البلد/الأقليم حسب الموضوع:
Asia
اللغة:
En
مجلة:
Infection and Chemotherapy
السنة:
2010
نوع:
Article