%0 Journal Article
%T Importance of nonspecific laboratory tests in Brucella diagnosis
%A G¨¹liz Do£¿an Toklu
%A Arzu Etem Aka£¿a£¿
%A Harun A£¿ca
%J Journal of Clinical and Experimental Investigations
%D 2012
%I Association of Health Investigations
%X Objectives: Brucella infection doesn¡¯t have spesific clinicalevidences, for this reason it can be confused with febrilediseases. In this study we aimed investigating theimportance of diagnosis with nonspesific laboratory testsin brucellosis.Materials and methods: We retrospectively screenedclinically compatible with brucellosis, standard tube agglutination(STA) and STA tests with coombs of patientssera which came to U ak State Hospital Central Laboratorybetween December 2010-May 2011. As controlgroup, we determined random 62 patients attended to thelaboratory between December 2010-May 2011 with STAtest results are negative and not diagnosed brucellosis.Results: C-reactive protein elevated in 54 patients(87.0%), ESR elevated in 44 patients (70.9%), AST elevatedin 22 patients (35.4%), ALT elevated in 7 patients(11.2%), ferritin elevated in 19 patients (30.6%), 8 patientshad anemia (12.9%) of patient group. In control group,7 patients elevated CRP (11.2%), 10 patients elevatedESR (16.1%), 1 patient elevated AST (1.6%), 1 patientelevated ALT (1.6%), 6 patients had anemia (9.6%) anddecrease in ferritin level wasn¡¯t detected.Conclusion: We concluded statistically significant highlevel of CRP, ESR, ALT, AST and ferritin support the testresults too beside the spesific brucellosis tests. J Clin ExpInvest 2012; 3(1): 87-90
%K Brucellosis
%K C-Reactive protein
%K erythrocyte sedimentation rate
%K ferritin
%U http://www.jceionline.org/upload/sayi/8/JCEI-00437.pdf