Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39137749›Full record

ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2024

Case Report: Brucellosis Mimicking Tuberculous Meningitis in a Child.

Sevgi Aslan Tuncay, Gulsen Akkoc, Seyhan Yilmaz, Burcu Parlak, Pinar Canizci Erdemli, Aylin Dizi Isik, Eda Kepenekli

Abstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sevgi Aslan TuncayMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.
Gulsen AkkocMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.
Seyhan YilmazMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.
Burcu ParlakMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.
Pinar Canizci ErdemliMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.
Aylin Dizi IsikMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.
Eda KepenekliMarmara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurobrucellosis is rare in children, presenting with a variety of clinical manifestations, including meningitis, meningoencephalitis, cranial neuropathies, and intracranial mass-like lesions. We present a case of a 17-year-old girl admitted to the hospital in Istanbul for headache. Lumbar puncture showed elevated intracranial pressure, monocytic pleocytosis, elevated total protein, and hypoglycorrhachia. Brucella melitensis grew from the cerebrospinal fluid. The patient was treated with doxycycline, rifampin, amikacin, and ceftriaxone and showed persistent sensorineural hearing loss. It is essential to consider brucellosis in the differential diagnosis of infectious neurological disease in areas where the disease is endemic. Serologic tests and cultures are needed for diagnosis, and efforts need to be made to identify the infecting organism to the species level to guide zoonotic source control efforts.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBrucellosisTuberculosis, MeningealAdolescentBrucella melitensisDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleHumansRifampinAnti-Bacterial AgentsRifampin

Identifiers

PMID39137749
PMCPMC11448518

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.