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Acute brucellosis presenting with erythema nodosum
Elias Mazokopakis1, Emilios Christias, Diamantis Kofteridis
1Division of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Heraklion Crete, Voutes, Greece. elmazokopakis@yahoo.gr
European Journal of Epidemiology
|October 17, 2003
Abstract:
Brucellosis is a common world-wide zoonotic disease. Cutaneous manifestations are not specific and affect 1-14% of patients with brucellosis. We describe two cases of young males presenting with skin lesions of erythema nodosum on the anterior surface of the legs. Histopathology of skin biopsy revealed septal panniculitis, but the positive cultures of blood or bone marrow for Brucella melitensis established the diagnosis of brucellosis.