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The survey of brucellosis in mental patients

Objective: Study about occurance of brucellosis in mentally - ill patients. Design: Observational study. Procedure: The survey was carried out on 500 persons who were reffered to a mental assylum & were hospitalized for treatament of mental diseases. In this study, their sera were obteined & tested for presence of antibodies reacting with brucella antigens in rapid agglutination test, Wright test, 2 - Mercaptoethanol (2ME) test, Combs test and complement fixtion test (CFT). Statistical analysis: Descriptive statistics. Result: 0.4 % of patients were positive via serological tests for diagnosis of brucellosis and active form of disease was confirmed for one patients (02% of patients) . Conclusion : It is possible that some mentally - ill patients is infected with brucellosis and some neuropsychotic signs of patients is resulted from brucellosis. Therefore, in mentally - ill patients, the attention to diagnosis of brucellosis may be essential to successful treatment of their neurcopsychotic disorders.