Brucellosis Presenting as Cholecystitis: A Case Report and Literature Review

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease endemic to much of the world. It most often presents with nonspecific symptoms and is a well known cause of undulant fever. Focal forms occur less frequently, with osteoarticular complications being the most common. In this study, we describe a rare case of brucello...

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Autores principales: Speiser, Lisa, Hsieh, Lanny, Huang, Susan S, Bittencourt, Cassiana, Forthal, Donald
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31660329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz334
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author Speiser, Lisa
Hsieh, Lanny
Huang, Susan S
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description Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease endemic to much of the world. It most often presents with nonspecific symptoms and is a well known cause of undulant fever. Focal forms occur less frequently, with osteoarticular complications being the most common. In this study, we describe a rare case of brucellosis presenting as cholecystitis.
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spelling pubmed-67653472019-10-02 Brucellosis Presenting as Cholecystitis: A Case Report and Literature Review Speiser, Lisa Hsieh, Lanny Huang, Susan S Bittencourt, Cassiana Forthal, Donald Open Forum Infect Dis ID Case Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease endemic to much of the world. It most often presents with nonspecific symptoms and is a well known cause of undulant fever. Focal forms occur less frequently, with osteoarticular complications being the most common. In this study, we describe a rare case of brucellosis presenting as cholecystitis. Oxford University Press 2019-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6765347/ /pubmed/31660329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz334 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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