Monitoring the course of Brucella infection with qPCR-based detection

Brucella is a facultative anaerobic Gram-negative bacillus. It resembles Mycobacterium tuberculosis and establishes infection intracellularly. Brucella infection shows a strong tissue preference for the reproductive system, bone, and fetal ectoderm (de Figueiredo et al., 2015). Early manifestations of brucellosis consist of fever, sweating, joint pain, symptoms of poisoning, chronic spine arthritis, testis or ovarian inflammation, and neurological complications. The prognosis of brucellosis tends to be poor and can result in disability if an early diagnosis was missed and/or no timely treatment was initiated.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research