Osteoarticular manifestations of brucellosis.

Introduction: Osteoarticular manifestations of human brucellosis occur in 20-40% of patients while spondylodiscitis is the most severe form of the bone and joint structures involvements.

Aim: The aim of this paper is tho show clinical and radiological caracteristics of osteoarticular forms of brucellosis, with special reference to spondylodiscitis.

Material And Methods: The medical histories of 120 hospitalized patients at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center of Sarajevo University, diagnosed with brucellosis, were analyzed.

Brucella endocarditis in prosthetic valves.

Conflict Of Interest: none declared.

Introduction: Brucella endocarditis (BE) is a rare but severe and potentially lethal manifestation of brucellosis. Pre-existing valves lesions and prosthetic valves (PV) are favorable for BE.

Brucella melitensis: review of the human infection case.

During the last several years, brucellosis has become an important public-health problem on a large territory part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The disease belongs to the zoonosis group, and can be caused by several bacterium species from Brucella genus. For human and veterinarian medicine, B.

[Diarrheal disease in hospitalized patients during the first year of the war].

During the period from April 1992 to April 1993 at the Clinic for infectious Disease in Sarajevo were hospitalized 213 patients. The major causative agents were different kinds of Shigella. Shigella sonnei with 159 (74.