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Published on: August 5, 2016
Childhood brucellosis in Babol, Iran
Mohammad Reza Hasanjani Roushan1, Seyed Ahmad Asgharzadeh Ahmadi, Seyed Mokhtar Smailnejad Gangi
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Babol Medical University, Babol 4717641367, Iran. hagar2q@yahoo.ca
Abstract:
This prospective study was conducted on 111 children with brucellosis, who attended the Department of Infectious Diseases, Babol, Iran, from September 1999 to March 2003. Fever (73.9%), sweating (67.6%), artheralgia (49.5%) and splenomegaly (18%) were common findings. The disease was acute and sub-acute in 97.3% and chronic in 2.7% of cases. Peripheral arthritis was seen in 35 (31.5%) of cases, which was monoarticular in 29 patients, most involving the knees and hips. Sacroilitis was seen in six (5.4%) cases.
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