Clinical features of neurobrucellosis:a report of 4 cases and literature review
Abstract：Objective To investigate the clinical features of neurobrucellosis .Methods By regression analysis ,clinical manifestation ,epidemiological data ,etiological examination ,lumbar puncture test and neu‐roimaging features of four neurobrucellosis cases ,who admitted to our hospital from January 2013 to February 2014 ,were investigated combining with literatures on neurobrucellosis to analysis clinical fea‐ture of neurobrucellosis .Results Neurobrucellosis mainly affected on brain parenchyma ,spinal cord , spinal nerve root and cerebrospinal meninges on usual .Cerebrospinal fluid usually presented inflammato‐ry changes .Neuroimaging studies could find pathological changes of brain ,spinal cord and cerbrospinal meninges in partial patients ,similar with pathological changes of demyelinate .Conclusions Neurobrucel‐losis is a kind of relative rare disease in clinical .For patients with undulant fever ,a history of lived in af‐fected areas or contacted with cattle or sheep and related neurological symptoms and signs ,they should have etiological examination on time to make a diagnoses or elimination of neruobrucellosis .
Keywords：BrucellosisCentral nervous system bacterial infectionsCerebrospinal fluidM RI
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 164-167 )