Brucellosis 2003 proceedings - PHIDIAS

Scientific Program - Poster Session I
(from 9:15 am Monday 15 to 11:00 am Tuesday 16)
26- CLINICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL FEATURES OF A HUMAN INFECTION BY THE M-STRAIN
OF Brucella canis.
J. C. Wallach 1 , G. H. Giambartolomei 2,3 , P. C. Baldi 2 , and C. A. Fossati 2 . (1) Servicio de Brucelosis, Hospital F. J. Muñiz,
Argentina. (2) IDEHU, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. (3) Laboratorio de
Inmunogenética, Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
27- IMPORTED CASE OF BRUCELLOSIS COMPLICATED BY LIVER ABSCESS.
C. Mutini, M. Di Carlo, L. Coppolaro, A. Di Girolamo, E. Pizzigallo. Clinica Malattie Infettive, Università degli Studi “G.
d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy.
28- HUMAN Brucella ENDOCARDITIS: REPORT OF TWO CASES.
E. Vasileiadou, P. Tsekoura, E. Sidopoulos, D. Chrysagis, E. Papamihalis, D. Kolokotroni. Department of ?nternal ?edicine,
Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece.
29- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEROLOGICAL TESTS IN DIAGNOSIS AND FOLLOWING UP OF
NEUROBRUCELLOSIS: CASE REPORT.
Djordjevic M 1 ., Lako B. 2 , Ristanovic E 2 . Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Centre, Nis (1). Military Academy Belgrade (2).
30- CHRONIC COMPLICATIONS OF BRUCELLOSIS: CASE REPORT.
Djordjevic M 1 ., Krstic M. 1 ,Lako B, 2 B.Djukic. Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center ,Niš (1), Military Academy Belgrade
(2).
31- BRUCELLOSIS AND CRIOGLOBULINEMIA.
Hermida I., Sáez L., Solera J. Servicio de Medicina Interna. Hospital General Universitario de Albacete. Facultad de Medicina,
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha. Spain.
32- A CASE OF HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS GIVING NEGATIVE RESULTS IN THE SERUM
AGGLUTINATION TEST (SAT)?: HOW TO AVOID THE PROZONE AND BLOCKING
PHENOMENA.
J. L. del Pozo, T. Marrodán, M. F. Rubio, R. Díaz. Servicio de Microbiología Clínica. Clínica Universitaria. Universidad de
Navarra. Pamplona, Spain.
33- IDENTIFICATION OF SMOOTH AND ROUGH FORMS IN CULTURES OF Brucella melitensis
STRAINS BY FLOW CYTOMETRY.
C. M. Fernandez-Prada, E. B. Zelazowska, A. K. Bhattacharjee, M. P. Nikolich, and D. L. Hoover. Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research (WRAIR), Silver Spring, MD 20910. USA.
34- EVALUATION OF A RAPID LATERAL FLOW TEST FOR DETECTION OF IgM AND IgG IN
HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS.
J. Douglas 1 , L. Okuhara 1 , T. Abdoel 2 , and H. Smits 2 . (1) Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii,
USA. (2) KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
35- DIAGNOSTICS OF HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS CAUSED BY Brucella melitensis.
T. Grushina 1 , L. Tabatabai 2 , L. Tserelson 3 , M. Syzdykov 3 , M. Rementsova 3 , S. Daulbayeva 3 , B. Beketov 1 , K. Ospanov 4 , A.
Kouznetsov 3 , S. Amireyev 3 . (1) M. Aikimbayev's Kazakh Scientific Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases, Kazakhstan.
(2) National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, USA. (3) Hygiene and Epidemiology Research Center, (4) Kazakh Republican
Sanitary - epidemiology station, Kazakhstan.
36- DETECTION OF Brucella melitensis BY VITAL SYSTEM.
St. Fokas, Sp. Fokas, M. Kalkani, M. Tsironi, S. Koutsoumpou, M. Dionysopoulou. Clinical Microbiology Department, General
Hospital of Sparta, Lakonia, Greece.
37- EVALUATION OF AN AUTOMATED COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST SYSTEM FOR THE
DIAGNOSIS OF ACTIVE BRUCELLOSIS.
M. Tognini 1 , P. Ardenghi 1 , E. Clavijo 2 , A. Orduna 3 , S. Jimenez 4 and R. Diaz 5 . (1) DIESSE Diagnostica Senese SpA,
Monteriggioni, Italy. (2) Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain. (3) Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina,
Valladolid, Spain. (4) Consejería de Salud, La Rioja, Spain. (5) Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidad de Navarra,
Pamplona, Spain.
38- A COMPARISON OF ANTI-LPS IgG AS MEASURED BY THE 2ME TEST OR BY ELISA IN
HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS.
J.C. Wallach 1,2 , C. A Fossati 2 , M.V. Delpino 2 and P.C. Baldi 2 . (1) Servicio de Brucelosis, Hospital F.J. Muñiz, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. (2) IDEHU, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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