[A rare agent of pneumonia: Brucella melitensis].

Tuberk Toraks

Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.

Published: April 2009

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.

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