Unusual Manifestation Of Brucellosis: Pancytopenia

CEMAL BES, MEHMET ALİ EREN, EMİNE GÜLTÜRK, FATİH BORLU, FATMA PAKSOY, SADİ KEREM OKUTUR, TURGAY ULAŞ

  • Year : 2012
  • Vol : 28
  • No : 4
  •  Page : 254-256
We report a patient with pancytopenia which is an unusual manifestation and a rare hematologic complication of acute brucellosis. A 29-year-old female patient was hospitalized with fever and pancytopenia. Brucella standard tube agglutination test was found to be positive and cultures from blood yielded growth of Brucella melitensis. The patient completely recovered by the sixth week following combined antibacterial treatment of doxycycline and streptomycine. Brucella should be considered as an uncommon cause of pancytopenia and should be treated immediately.
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Unusual Manifestation Of Brucellosis: Pancytopenia
, Vol. 28 (4)
Received : 21.01.2011, Accepted : 21.01.2011, Published Online : 13.08.2018
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