Evaluation of the Correlation Between Brucella Serum Agglutination Titre and Liver Involvement
Objective: Brucellosis is a zoonotic infectious disease transmitted to humans. Typical symptoms of brucellosis are undulant fever, malaise and night sweats. It can lead to complications with involvement of many organs. Early and effective treatment strategies can be effective in preventing these complications. However, different complications can be seen in some cases. Liver involvement is one of these complications. Methods: In this retrospective study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between serum agglutination titre and liver involvement in patients with brucellosis in a city in Turkey. Liver involvement was considered absent if ALT and AST
Authors
- Hüsna Şengül Aşkın (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9997-9447)
- Özlem Akay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9539-7252)
- Mehmet Çelik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0583-929X)
- Selda Aslan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8695-7118)
- Ahmet Şahin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8377-8293)
Institutions
- Medical Park Gaziantep Hospital (TR)
- City Hospital (GB)
- Department of Medical Sciences (BY)
- Gaziantep University (TR)
- Harran University (TR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Gaziantep Islam Science and Technology University
- Published
- 2024-11-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.46871/eams.1521348
- Primary Topic
- Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00