The persistent worldwide prevalence of human brucellosis causes serious public health
concerns and economic loss to communities. The multisystem involvement and the protean and …

Resistance to β lactam antibiotics is an increasing problem worldwide. This review describes
the classification and mechanism of action of β lactamases and the options available for …

Of 400 patients with brucellosis, 104 (26%) had arthritis, of whom 96 could be followed up.
The systemic disease in the 96 patients was acute in 54 (56%), subacute in 24 (25%), and …

Brucellosis remains an important anthropozoonosis worldwide. Brucella species are genetically
homogeneous, and thus, the typing of Brucella species for epidemiological purposes by …

Although brucellosis and its means of transmission were discovered over 100 years ago,
the disease remains a world-wide problem, predominantly so in developing countries. …

Background There is a lack of official national antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data in Lebanon.
Individual hospitals generate their own antibiotic susceptibility data in the form of yearly …

Bacteria of the genus Brucella are facultative intracellular parasites that cause brucellosis, a
severe animal and human disease. Recently, a group of taxonomists merged the brucellae …

This study aimed at developing a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for the
rapid diagnosis of human brucellosis on clinical specimens. Three assays with hybridization …

BACKGROUND: Infections caused by extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing
gram-negative bacilli constitute a growing problem worldwide. At the American University of …

Subacute and chronic spondylodiscitis can be caused by a wide spectrum of infectious
aetiologies including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Brucella spp. and a variety of fungi including …