The clinical and laboratory characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of patients with Brucella epididymo-orchitis (BEO) compared to those without BEO*

Authors

HASAN NAZ
PINAR KORKMAZ
FİGEN ÇEVİK
NEVİL AYKIN

Abstract

Background/aim: We aim to describe the clinical and laboratory characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of 21 patients with Brucella epididymo-orchitis (BEO) from Eskişehir Yunus Emre State Hospital, Turkey. Materials and methods: A total of 21 patients with BEO who were diagnosed and followed in the Infectious Diseases Clinic between June 2001 and June 2013 were evaluated retrospectively. Results: One hundred and twenty-eight of 192 patients evaluated throughout the study were male and BEO was determined in 21 (16.4%) patients. A total of 18 (85.7%) patients had a titer of ≥1:160 in standard agglutination test (STA). Three patients with STA

DOI

10.3906/sag-1406-29

Keywords

Brucellosis, epididymo-orchitis, medical treatment, ciprofloxacin

First Page

1323

Last Page

1328

Recommended Citation

NAZ, H, KORKMAZ, P, ÇEVİK, F, & AYKIN, N (2016). The clinical and laboratory characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of patients with Brucella epididymo-orchitis (BEO) compared to those without BEO*. Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences 46 (5): 1323-1328. https://doi.org/10.3906/sag-1406-29