[A rare agent of pneumonia: Brucella melitensis].
Brucellosis remains a world-wide public health problem especially in developing brucellosis remains a world-wide public health problem especially in developing countries. Although involvement of the respiratory system in brucellosis is an acknowledged but rare event, its clinical manifestations and focal complications are often troublesome in making a diagnosis. Herein, we report a pneumonia case which proved due to Brucella melitensis in a 57-year-old man who presented with chronic cough, sputum, hemoptysis and fever.
Oztürk
Onder
O
Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. dronderozturk@gmail.com
Akçam
Zeynep
Z
Sahin
Unal
U
Bircan
Ahmet
A
Akkaya
Ahmet
A
Yayli
Güler
G
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D017347:Brucella melitensis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D002939:Ciprofloxacin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003371:Cough / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D011634:Public Health; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D002939:Ciprofloxacin