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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
- Some signs and symptoms may persist for longer periods of time. Others may never go away or reoccur.[1][2][3]
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