THE CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC BRUCELLOSIS
Authors: Robert C. Manchester
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1942)

Article1 May 1942THE CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC BRUCELLOSISROBERT C. MANCHESTER, M.S., M.D.ROBERT C. MANCHESTER, M.S., M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-16-5-950 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn a private practice which included a large group of patients with chronic complaints an appreciable number gave stories strongly suggestive of chronic brucellosis. Agglutination tests sent to the state laboratory were consistently negative. The problem, then, was the correct recognition of a disease which, in its chronic form, exhibits protean but ill-defined manifestations, and the correlation of these varied clinical aspects.That brucellosis exists as a chronic, protracted disease, in addition to the acute self-limited form, has been recognized by Hardy,1 Huddleson,2 Evans,3 Calder,4 Cameron and Wells,5 and others.Evans3recognized the unreliability of the accepted laboratory procedures for...Bibliography1. HARDY AV: Undulant fever with special reference to a study of brucella infection in Iowa, Nat. Inst. of Health, Bull. 158. Google Scholar2. HUDDLESON IF: Brucellosis in man and animals, 1939, The Commonwealth Fund, N. Y. Google Scholar3. EVANS AC: Studies in chronic brucellosis. I. Introduction. Pub. Health Rep., 1937, lii, 1072-1077. EVANS, ALICE C., ROBINSON, FRANK H., and BAUMGARTNER, LEONA: Studies on chronic brucellosis. IV. An evaluation of the diagnostic laboratory tests, Pub. 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