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Brucellosis

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Brucellosis, also known as undulant fever, is an acute or chronic bacterial infectious zoonosis caused by Brucella that threatens the health of humans and farming animals. The clinical symptoms include persistent fever, excessive sweating, joint pain, and hepatosplenomegaly of different degrees. The disease has a globally extensive distribution and has been legally listed as the class B infectious diseases in China.

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  1. Department of Radiology, The Sixth People’s Hospital, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China

    Yuxin Yang

  2. Department of Radiology, City Central Hospital, Karamay, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China

    Xinsheng Lv

  3. CT Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Bailu Liu

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    Hongjun Li

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Yang, Y., Lv, X., Liu, B. (2015). Brucellosis. In: Li, H. (eds) Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9876-1_3

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