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

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 com...

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Main Authors: Fereshte Sheybani, Bezat Amiri, HamidReza Naderi, Mohammad Reza Sarvghad
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/759856
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-e3c2f0bfc8934f69a2f2a8d4bd0ae2ab2025-08-20T02:21:24ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332015-01-01201510.1155/2015/759856759856A 28-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Weight Loss, Pancytopenia, and Multiple Hepatosplenic and Bone LesionsFereshte Sheybani0Bezat Amiri1HamidReza Naderi2Mohammad Reza Sarvghad3Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, IranDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, IranDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, IranDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, IranBrucellosis 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/759856
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A 28-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Weight Loss, Pancytopenia, and Multiple Hepatosplenic and Bone Lesions
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
title A 28-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Weight Loss, Pancytopenia, and Multiple Hepatosplenic and Bone Lesions
title_full A 28-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Weight Loss, Pancytopenia, and Multiple Hepatosplenic and Bone Lesions
title_fullStr A 28-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Weight Loss, Pancytopenia, and Multiple Hepatosplenic and Bone Lesions
title_full_unstemmed A 28-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Weight Loss, Pancytopenia, and Multiple Hepatosplenic and Bone Lesions
title_short A 28-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Weight Loss, Pancytopenia, and Multiple Hepatosplenic and Bone Lesions
title_sort 28 year old woman with fever weight loss pancytopenia and multiple hepatosplenic and bone lesions
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/759856
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