A Rare Form of Brucella Bursitis with Negative Serology: A Case Report and Literature Review

Brucellosis is still endemic in certain parts of the world including the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Latin America, and African regions. Osteoarticular manifestations are common presenting features. Brucellosis presenting as prepatellar bursitis has already been reported. We present a case of se...

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Autor principal: Almajid, F. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5346395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28337351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9802532
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description Brucellosis is still endemic in certain parts of the world including the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Latin America, and African regions. Osteoarticular manifestations are common presenting features. Brucellosis presenting as prepatellar bursitis has already been reported. We present a case of seronegative olecranon bursitis with positive blood and aspirate cultures. The patient improved remarkably by treatment with streptomycin and doxycycline with no evidence or relapse.
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spelling pubmed-53463952017-03-23 A Rare Form of Brucella Bursitis with Negative Serology: A Case Report and Literature Review Almajid, F. M. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Brucellosis is still endemic in certain parts of the world including the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Latin America, and African regions. Osteoarticular manifestations are common presenting features. Brucellosis presenting as prepatellar bursitis has already been reported. We present a case of seronegative olecranon bursitis with positive blood and aspirate cultures. The patient improved remarkably by treatment with streptomycin and doxycycline with no evidence or relapse. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5346395/ /pubmed/28337351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9802532 Text en Copyright © 2017 F. M. Almajid. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short A Rare Form of Brucella Bursitis with Negative Serology: A Case Report and Literature Review
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