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Babrew


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 16:03

"Brucellosis in humans can cause muscular pain and sweating. Does anybody know how this can be diagnosed?

Glynn


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 16:08

I think the symptoms might be "Muscular pain and sweating" but that is only a guess.

malsancak


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 16:11

I know that your muscles ache and you sweat when you run fast, is that brucellosis then?

Babrew


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 18:04

What tests do you have to have that proves you have Brucellosis?

Pugwash


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02/10/2010 18:16

Brucellosis in humans is usually associated with the consumption of unpasteurized milk and soft cheeses made from the milk of infected animals, primarily goats, infected with Brucella melitensis and with occupational exposure of laboratory workers, veterinarians and slaughterhouse workers. Some vaccines used in livestock, most notably B. abortus strain 19, also cause disease in humans if accidentally injected. Brucellosis induces inconstant fevers, sweating, weakness, anaemia, headaches, depression and muscular and bodily pain.

The symptoms are like those associated with many other febrile diseases, but with emphasis on muscular pain and sweating. The duration of the disease can vary from a few weeks to many months or even years. In the first stage of the disease, septicaemia occurs and leads to the classic triad of undulant fevers, sweating (often with characteristic smell, likened to wet hay) and migratory arthralgia and myalgia. In blood tests, is characteristic the leukopenia and

Pugwash


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02/10/2010 18:18

anaemia, some elevation of AST and ALT and positivity of classic Bengal Rose and Huddleson reactions. This complex is, at least in Portugal, known as the Malta fever. During episodes of Malta fever, melitococcemia (presence of brucellae in blood) can usually be demonstrated by means of blood culture in tryptose medium or Albini medium. If untreated, the disease can give origin to focalizations or become chronic. The focalizations of brucellosis occur usually in bones and joints and spondylodiscitis of lumbar spine accompanied by sacroiliitis is very characteristic of this disease. Orchitis is also frequent in men.

Diagnosis of brucellosis relies on:

Demonstration of the agent: blood cultures in tryptose broth, bone marrow cultures. The growth of brucellae is extremely slow (they can take until 2 months to grow) and the culture poses a risk to laboratory personnel due to high infectivity of brucellae.

Demonstration of antibodies against the agent either with the classic Huddleson,

Pugwash


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02/10/2010 18:18

Wright and/or Bengal Rose reactions, either with ELISA or the 2-mercaptoethanol assay for IgM antibodies associated with chronic disease

Histologic evidence of granulomatous hepatitis (hepatic biopsy)

Radiologic alterations in infected vertebrae: the Pedro Pons sign (preferential erosion of antero-superior corner of lumbar vertebrae) and marked osteophytosis are suspicious of brucellic spondylitis.

The disease's sequelae are highly variable and may include granulomatous hepatitis, arthritis, spondylitis, anaemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, meningitis, uveitis, optic neuritis, endocarditis and various neurological orders collectively known as neurobrucellosis.

Glynn


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 18:42

Google is really wonderful. It makes us all sound as if we know what we are talking about!

Glynn


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 18:50

Speak to a medical professional, and stop asking silly questions on an internet chat site.

Pugwash


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 19:02

Indeed it is Glynn, not sure why people don't look there before asking these things.

Glynn


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 19:04

Didn't stop you getting 3 smart ar** postings in though did it?

Pugwash


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 19:15

Nor you Glynn. Difference is you are not helpful to anyone.

Glynn


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 19:18

Cut and paste from Google to make yourself look clever is not the standard method of being helpful.



Now don't get bitter, get smart!

Pugwash


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 19:19

It was obvious I had done that, next time I will quote the source for you Glynn, if that will make you happy.

Glynn


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Message Posted:
02/10/2010 19:21

Lovely jubbly....You know it makes sense!