Clinical Features of Afebrile Brucellosis Patients in Endemic Areas, 2024

70 afebrile and 119 febrile brucellosis patients admitted to the Affiliated Kashgar Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in 2024 were compared in this retrospective case-control study. The dataset includes demographic data, clinical features, and laboratory findings, highlighting differences in disease presentation and diagnostic challenges. It was authored by Yifan Ke and published on figshare in 2026.

Use Cases

• Compare clinical manifestations between afebrile and febrile brucellosis patients based on features like spondylitis and fatigue rates.
• Analyze the association between disease chronicity and the absence of fever based on the reported proportion of chronic disease course.
• Investigate diagnostic marker reliability based on the reported lower bacterial culture positive rate in afebrile patients.
• Study correlations between systemic toxic symptoms and laboratory abnormalities like hemoglobin and procalcitonin levels.

Strengths

• Direct comparison of 189 total patient records across two distinct clinical groups.
• Includes specific statistical comparisons (p-values) for key clinical and laboratory findings.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Data is limited to a single hospital in 2024, which may limit generalizability.
• The dataset is very small at 93.3 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Affiliated Kashgar Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Collection Method

Retrospective case-control study of hospital admissions.

Time Range

2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 04:16:08; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kashgar (pastoral endemic area)