Pulmonary involvement in childhood brucellosis: a case report.
Brucellosis is primarily a zoonotic disease that continues to be an important public health problem. It is a rare, multisystem infection of childhood and it may present with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations and complications. However, lung involvement is extremely rare in the course of childhood brucellosis. This case report describes a 6-year-old child who was referred to our hospital as meningococcemia but diagnosed as lobar pneumonia in follow-up. Brucella agglutination test and bone marrow culture were diagnostic of brucellosis. The patient responded to the combination therapy of rifampicin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
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Department of Infectious Diseases, Dr Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. drolukman2002@yahoo.com
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002002:Brucella / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D012293:Rifampin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015662:Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D015662:Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination; D012293:Rifampin