Diagnostic Mistakes as Regards Chronic Form of Brucellosis

Abstract

Analyzed were case records of patients with chronic brucellosis for the period of 1994-2009. Presented are the examples from the disease anamnesis of the patients examined in the infectious unit of Krasnoyarsk municipal hospital, with diagnosis of brucellosis established not in time. The reasons of diagnostic mistakes in various forms of brucellosis are considered.

Keywords

• chronic brucellosis
• diagnostic mistakes