Evaluation of the clinical presentations in neurobrucellosis.

Background: Brucellosis is a multisystem disease that may present with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and complications. Neurobrucellosis is one of the complications.

Methods: In this study, we describe our experience in the diagnosis, treatment, and the final outcomes of 20 patients with neurobrucellosis out of 305 patients with brucellosis, within a five-year period between January 1999 and June 2004.

Epididymoorchitis due to brucellosis in central Anatolia, Turkey.

Brucellosis may involve many organs and tissues. Epididymoorchitis is a focal genitourinary complication of human brucellosis. In this study, we describe our experience with the diagnosis, treatment, and final outcomes of 17 patients with epididymoorchitis out of 186 male patients with brucellosis between March 1999 and December 2003.