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==Overview== | |||
Symptoms of brucellosis include undulant fever, night sweats (with characteristic smell, likened to wet hay), and joint pain.<ref name="b">Brucellosis. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucellosis. Accessed on February 4, 2016</ref> | |||
==Symptoms== | ==Symptoms== | ||
Acute brucellosis may begin with mild [[flu]]-like symptoms, or symptoms such as: | *Acute brucellosis may begin with mild [[flu]]-like symptoms, or symptoms such as: | ||
* Undulant [[fever]] | ** Undulant [[fever]] | ||
**High fever spikes usually occur every afternoon | ***High fever spikes usually occur every afternoon | ||
* | ** Night sweats | ||
**Often with characteristic smell, likened to wet hay | ***Often with characteristic smell, likened to wet hay | ||
* [[Abdominal pain]] | ** [[Abdominal pain]] | ||
* [[Back pain]] | ** [[Back pain]] | ||
* [[Chills]] | ** [[Chills]] | ||
* [[Fatigue]] | ** [[Fatigue]] | ||
* [[Headache]] | ** [[Headache]] | ||
* [[Joint pain]] | ** [[Joint pain]] | ||
* [[Loss of appetite]] | ** [[Loss of appetite]] | ||
* [[Weakness]] | ** [[Weakness]] | ||
* [[Weight loss]] | ** [[Weight loss]] | ||
* [[Clinical depression|Depression]] | ** [[Clinical depression|Depression]] <ref name="pmid15930423">{{cite journal| author=Pappas G, Akritidis N, Bosilkovski M, Tsianos E| title=Brucellosis. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2005 | volume= 352 | issue= 22 | pages= 2325-36 | pmid=15930423 | doi=10.1056/NEJMra050570 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=15930423 }} </ref><ref name="a">Brucellosis. CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/brucellosis/transmission/index.html. Accessed on February 1, 2016</ref><ref name="b">Brucellosis. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucellosis. Accessed on January 29, 2016</ref> | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Raviteja Guddeti, M.B.B.S. [2] Danitza Lukac
Overview
Symptoms of brucellosis include undulant fever, night sweats (with characteristic smell, likened to wet hay), and joint pain.[1]
Symptoms
- Acute brucellosis may begin with mild flu-like symptoms, or symptoms such as:
- Undulant fever
- High fever spikes usually occur every afternoon
- Night sweats
- Often with characteristic smell, likened to wet hay
- Abdominal pain
- Back pain
- Chills
- Fatigue
- Headache
- Joint pain
- Loss of appetite
- Weakness
- Weight loss
- Depression [2][3][1]
- Undulant fever
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brucellosis. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucellosis. Accessed on February 4, 2016
- ↑ Pappas G, Akritidis N, Bosilkovski M, Tsianos E (2005). "Brucellosis". N Engl J Med. 352 (22): 2325–36. doi:10.1056/NEJMra050570. PMID 15930423.
- ↑ Brucellosis. CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/brucellosis/transmission/index.html. Accessed on February 1, 2016