title: Brucella: a rare causative agent of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
abstract: We report a 54-year-old woman with hepatitis B-related chronic liver disease with ascites who developed spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. Blood and fluid cultures grew Brucella; the patient was working at an animal husbandry till one year ago. She responded to therapy with streptomycin and tetracycline.
authors.affiliation: GATA Department of Internal Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. refikmas@yahoo.com
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Refik Mas
authors.forename: Ahmet Turan
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Isik
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Doruk
authors.forename: Bilgin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cömert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology