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Apyrexic Brucella melitensis aortic valve endocarditis
D S al-Mudallal1, A R Mousa, A A Marafie
1Medical Department, Al-Adan Hospital, Ministry of Public Health, Kuwait.
Tropical and Geographical Medicine
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
The case of a young shepherd with Brucella melitensis aortic valve endocarditis is presented. His illness ran an afebrile course and was also complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), nephritis, hepatitis and peritonitis, all of which responded well to supportive measures and a combination of tetracycline, trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole and amikacin sulphate. The fact that even the most severe case of brucellosis can present without fever is stressed.