Meet the editors

Professor Mitra Ranjbar, MD, specializes in infectious diseases and tropical medicine as well as a course of MPH. She has worked for about 20 years as a university teacher and investigator. The majority of her work and research is about brucellosis (clinical trials and complications of brucellosis such as neurobrucellosis, osteoarticular brucellosis, immunology of brucellosis) and endemic infectious diseases in Iran such as typhoid fever,

cholera, viral hepatitis, etc. She has written more than 60 papers about infectious diseases. Dr. Mitra Ranjbar is the Dean of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Professor Marzieh Nojomi, MD, MPH, is specialized in community and preventive medicine as well as flow of clinical epidemiology. She has worked for 20 years as a university teacher and investigator. The majority of her work and research is about public and community health. Dr. Nojomi has written more than two hundred papers about community medicine, women's health, and epidemiology of disease. Dr. Nojomi is the dean of

the Department of Community and Family Medicine and also the head of Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center at Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Maria T. Mascellino has completed her MD at the age of 25 years in Rome during the period of 1980 and specialization in Clinical Microbiology from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She works as aggregate professor in the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases. She has published other than 100 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. She is editor of the book "Bacterial and My-

cotic infections in immune-compromised hosts" (OMICS group) and of the book "Salmonella: a re-emerging pathogen" (InTech). She is a reviewer for important scientific international Journals and Research Projects from Ministry of University. She has attended national and international Conferences as speaker presenting relevant research topics.

Contents

*Muhammad Husnain* 

*and José A. Villagómez-Cortés*

Kidney Disease in Brucellosis

*by Shokoufeh Savaj*

Neonatal Brucellosis *by Fatemeh Eghbalian*

Riverbank Filtration

*by Maria Teresa Mascellino*

Evaluation of Therapeutic Trials in Bovines

Update of Antibiotic Therapy of Brucellosis

*by Nur Aziemah Abd Rashid and Ismail Abustan*

Prologue: *Escherichia coli, Listeria*, and *Salmonella*

Immunopathogenesis of Salmonellosis

*by Sara Consuelo Arias Villate and Julio Cesar García Casallas*

*by Aneela Zameer Durrani, Muhammad Usman, Zain Kazmi and* 

Goats and Their Possible Implications to Control Programs *by Baldomero Molina-Sánchez, David I. Martínez-Herrera,* 

*Violeta T. Pardío-Sedas, Ricardo Flores-Castro, José F. Morales-Álvarez* 

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5** Comparative Field Trial Effect of *Brucella* spp. Vaccines on Seroconversion in

**Chapter 3 19**

**Chapter 4 27**

**Chapter 5 35**

**Chapter 6 59**

**Chapter 7 83**

**Chapter 8 99**

*by Mashooq Ahmad Dar, Peerzada Tajamul Mumtaz, Shakil Ahmad Bhat, Qamar Taban, Shabir Ahmad Khan, Tufail Banday and Syed Mudasir Ahmad*

Application of Artificial Barrier as Mitigation of *E. coli* Which Pass through

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Preface

Brucellosis is a major zoonotic disease. Elimination of human disease depends on the prevention and control of animal infections. In endemic settings, brucellosis typically affects rural communities with inadequate access to healthcare and

exposure, or travel from an endemic area.

e.g. joint aspirates or by serological tests.

may be required for complicated infections.

most important aspects of brucellosis.

have been possible without their contribution.

this book.

preventative education. There is often a history of illness in the family, occupational

The clinical features are variable, most commonly presenting as nonspecific fever, accompanied by musculoskeletal pain in almost half of the patients. The most important differential diagnosis is tuberculosis, especially in localized infections. Less common manifestations include prostatitis, cystitis, interstitial nephritis, or glomerulonephritis. Infection among children is generally more benign than in adults with respect to likelihood and severity of complications and response to treatment. Brucellosis in pregnancy is associated with the risk of spontaneous abortion, premature delivery, miscarriage, and intrauterine infection with fetal death. The diagnosis should be confirmed by culture of blood or other sterile fluids,

The microbiology laboratory should be warned if brucellosis is suspected, both to optimize testing strategies and to reduce the significant risk of laboratory-acquired infection. Treatment regimens should include at least two antimicrobial agents for at least 6 weeks, in order to prevent relapse. Aminoglycoside-containing regimens are superior. More prolonged treatment with a triple antimicrobial combination

The approach taken by the authors in this book is resolutely practical as they have tried to introduce and discuss therapeutic trials in cattle, the *brucella* spp. vaccines and their possible implications to control programs, molecular targets, and methods for differentiation of species and biovars. In addition, the latest updates of antibiotic therapy of brucellosis are described, which makes the book easier to consult. Kidney involvement in brucellosis and neonatal brucellosis are included in

This book is the result of several months of outstanding efforts by authors and revision of the content by experts in the field of brucellosis. This book is a valid resource and is intended for everyone interested in infectious disease to learn the

Please do not hesitate to share with us your invaluable comments to improve the next editions. We are deeply appreciative of our colleagues as this work would not
