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Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Human Brucellar Spondylodiscitis
Published on: May 23, 2021
Primary peritonitis due to brucellosis mimicking tuberculous peritonitis
Yusuf Ziya Demiroğlu1, Tuba Turunç, Hikmet Alişkan
1Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Başkent University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. yusufziya2002@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Peritonitis due to brucellosis is extremely rare and the reported cases are mostly chronic hepatic failure patients with ascites or chronic renal failure patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. We report a 20-year-old male patient, with no underlying disease, who was diagnosed as peritonitis due to brucellosis mimicking tuberculosis, with ascites with pleocytosis, lymphocytic predominance and high levels of adenosine deaminase.
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