Management of neurobrucellosis: an assessment of 11 cases.

Objective: The central nervous system involvement of Brucellosis causes a hard to treat infection with multiple sequelae. The aim of this paper is to discuss the course of neurobrucellosis in response to therapy.

Patients And Methods: Patients with neurobrucellosis were evaluated.

Gram-negative bacterial resistance to cephalosporins in community-acquired infections in Turkey.

Cephalosporins are widely used and trustworthy antibiotics in daily medical practice. Although antibacterial resistance has been reported in hospital wards, there are less data for community-acquired infections. In this study we investigated the cephalosporin susceptibility profiles of community-acquired Gram-negative bacteria isolates in Sivas Kizilay Medical Center (Turkey) between March 2002 and March 2003.