MENINGO-ENCEPHALITIS DUE TO BRUCELLOSIS WITH THE REPORT OF A CASE IN WHICH B. ABORTUS WAS RECOVERED FROM THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID, AND A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Authors: E NICHOLS
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1951)

Article1 September 1951MENINGO-ENCEPHALITIS DUE TO BRUCELLOSIS WITH THE REPORT OF A CASE IN WHICH B. ABORTUS WAS RECOVERED FROM THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID, AND A REVIEW OF THE LITERATUREEDWARD NICHOLS, M.D., F.A.C.P.EDWARD NICHOLS, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-35-3-673 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMENINGO-ENCEPHALITIS AS A MANIFESTATION OF BRUCELLOSISThe difficulty of establishing a diagnosis of brucellosis in many suspected cases and the great variability in the disease itself have made the pathogenesis of this infection in humans notoriously unsuited to critical study. The lack of any reliable treatment has further obscured an adequate understanding of the clinical manifestations attributed to the so-called "chronic" phases of this disease, which conceivably may be complicated or modified at any time by the development of any other complaint to which man is subject. The formation of a satisfactory concept of central nervous system involvement in brucellosis...Bibliography1a. RogerPoursines HY: Les méningo-neurobrucelloses, Masson et Cie, Paris, 1938. b. Mossa, G.: Raro caso di amaurosi bilaterale da micrococco di Bruge, Atti Congr. Soc. oftal. ital., pp. 655-664, 1935; Abstr. Zentralbl. f. d. ges. Ophth. 35: 496-497, 1935-36. c. Muzard, M.: Contribution à l'étude des compressions médullaires dans la fièvre de Malta, 1936, Thèse de Montpell d. Gaetano, G.: Notta, Case, cited by Roger and Poursines. e. Barbier, R.: Les paraplégies mélitococciques, 1933, Thèse de Montpellier. f. Case, cited by Roger and Poursines. g. Case, cited by Roger and Poursines. 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