A rare cause of colitis--Brucella melitensis. Report of a case.
Documentation of gastrointestinal lesions in Brucella infections is sparse. A case of Brucella melitensis type 3 infection accompanied by erosive lesions of the colon, observed by endoscopy and histopathologic examination, is reported. Such gastrointestinal lesions have not been described since 1934. Before 1934 only postmortem observations are recorded.
Jorens
P G
PG
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium.
Michielsen
P P
PP
Van den Enden
E J
EJ
Bourgeois
N H
NH
Van Marck
E A
EA
Krueger
G R
GR
Ramon
A M
AM
Van Maercke
Y M
YM
D000328:Adult; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000473:pathology; D003092:Colitis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003106:Colon / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans