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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