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Patient No./Age (y)/Sex Signs and Symptoms Imaging Findings White Blood Cell Count (WBC) CSF Analysis Protein (mg/L) Brucella* (SAT, 2ME) 1/26/M Headache, ↓hearing, psychosis MR brain: normal. 4 603 320, 160 2/51/M Confusion, spastic gait, ↓hearing MR: periventricular white matter hyperintense lesion (T2 + FLAIR). 6 692 160, 80 3/30/F Headache, deafness, papilledema, sensory ataxia, areflexia MR brain: enhancing granuloma suprasellar region (T1 + contrast). 373 8000 1280, 640 4/59/M Fever, ↓hearing, ataxia, lower limb weakness, areflexia, Babinski CT brain: normal. MR brain: periventricular white matter hyperintense lesions (T2 + FLAIR). 70 1900 320, 320 5/25/M Deafness MR brain: normal. 1 521 40, 40 6/36/M ↓Hearing, ataxia, nystagmus CT brain: normal. MR brain: basal meningeal enhancement (T1 + contrast). 219 8300 640, 640 7/32/M ↓Hearing, spasticity, bilateral Babinski MR brain: right frontal subcortical high signal intensity (T2). 6 1093 640, 640 8/29/F Deafness MR brain: normal. 82 1900 640, 320 9/32/M ↓Hearing, lower limb weakness, areflexia MR lumbar spine: enhancement of nerve root (T1 + contrast). 270 6637 1280, 640 10/58/M Fever, ↓hearing, ataxia CT brain: normal. 490 7930 1280, 1280 11/17/M Fever, lower limb weakness, areflexia MR lumbar spine: enhancement of nerve root (T1 + contrast). 65 2308 160, 160 12/28/F ↓Hearing CT brain: normal. 20 747 80, 80 13/50/M Confusion, seizures, behaviour change, ↓hearing CT brain: bihemisphere white matter hypoattenuation, left caudate lacunae, subthalamic hematoma. MR: diffuse white matter hyperintense lesions (T2 + FLAIR), caudate lacunae, increased signal intensity in pons and left cerebral peduncle (T2). 900 7536 180, 80 14/70/M ↓Hearing, spastic paraparesis, ataxic gait MR brain: diffuse white matter hyperintense lesions (T2 + FLAIR) and basal meningeal enhancement (T1 + contrast). MR spine: normal. 17 2641 160, 160 15/30/F Headache, sixth nerve palsy, papilledema, ↓hearing MR and CT: normal. 500 2370 640, 640 16/30/M Headache, sixth nerve palsy, papilledema, ↓hearing, neck stiffness MR: normal. 42 880 40, 20 17/29/M ↓Hearing, spastic paraparesis MR brain: normal. MR spine: atrophy. 1 460 320, 160 18/32/F ↓Hearing MR: normal. 6 1599 320, 320 19/25/F ↓Hearing, headache MR: normal. 15 2153 80, 80 20/63/M Recurrent transient ischemic attacks, confusion, ↓hearing CT: periventricular hypoattenuations, enhancement of tentorium. MR: periventricular white matter hyperintense lesions (T2 + FLAIR), right cerebellum and pons increased signal intensity (T2). 150 1000 80, 80 21/65/F Headache, confusion, neck stiffness MR: diffuse white matter hyperintense lesions (T2 + FLAIR), left caudate lacunae. 272 2000 640, 640 22/20/F Lower limb weakness, areflexia MR spine: lumbar nerve root enhancement (T1 + contrast). 32 1797 1280, 640 23/47/F ↓Hearing, lower limb weakness, areflexia MR spine: normal. Not performed
Note.—↓ indicates decreased; T2, T2-weighted images; T1 + contrast, gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted images.
* By standard agglutination test before and after precipitation by 2-mercapto-ethanol.