title: [Brucellar orchiepididymitis].
abstract: The brucellosis is an unusual entity whose incidence has diminished due to the improvement in preventive measures. We have carried out a retrospective study of all the patients admitted in our service between 1996 and 1998, with diagnosis of orchitis. Two of the 31 patients admitted for this reason presented a final diagnosis of brucellar orchiepididymitis. Both patients presented clinic of affectation from the general state accompanied by resistance to habitual antibiotic treatment. The patient's epidemic antecedents, accompanied by the suitable clinical evolution took to the suspicion of orchiepididymitis of brucellar etiology, with change in the antibiotic rule. The diagnosis of the process was obtained by means of serologic tests and blood cultures.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Valdelvira Nadal
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Nicolás Torralba
authors.forename: V J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Bañón Pérez
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: López Cubillana
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Server Pastor
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prieto González
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gómez Gómez
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: García Hernández
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martínez Pertusa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perez Albacete
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002006:Brucellosis; D004823:Epididymitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009920:Orchitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies