A 28-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Weight Loss, Pancytopenia, and Multiple Hepatosplenic and Bone Lesions

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  • Fereshte Sheybani
  • Bezat Amiri
  • HamidReza Naderi
  • Mohammad Reza Sarvghad
چکیده

Brucellosis is a systemic zoonotic infection that can involve any organ or system in the body. It may present with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Considering such myriad presentations, brucellosis should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of any febrile illness in a compatible epidemiological context. Here, we report a rare presentation of acute brucellosis with multifocal osteomyelitis and hepatosplenic lesions.

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دوره 2015  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015