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Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials BioMed Central Case report Open Access Neurobrucellosis presenting as an intra-medullary spinal cord abscess 1 2 2 Girish V Vajramani* , Mahantesh B Nagmoti and Chidanand S Patil Address: 1Department of Neurosurgery, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and KLES Hospital, Belgaum, Karnataka, India and 2Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and KLES Hospital, Belgaum, Karnataka, India Email: Girish V Vajramani* - neurosurgirish@; Mahantesh B Nagmoti - drmbnagmoti@; Chidanand S Patil - drcspatil@ * Corresponding author Published: 16 September 2005 Received: 05 June 2005 Accepted: 16 September 2005 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2005, 4:14 doi:10.1186/1476-0711-4-14 This article is available from: /content/4/1/14 © 2005 Vajramani et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. NeurobrucellosisBrucella melitensisspinal cordintra-medullary abscessMRI Abstract Background: Of the diverse presentation of neurobrucellosis, intra-medullary spinal cord abscess is extremely rare. Only four other cases have been reported so far. We present a case of spinal cord intra-med