A case of brucellosis presenting with pericardial and pleural effusion
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Gulnar Sensoy; Özlem Köken; Burak Yurek; Kemal Baysal; Meryem Hilal Altas; Arzu Karli
- Source
- The Clinical Respiratory Journal. 12:285-287
- Subject
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
biology
Zoonotic Infection
business.industry
Pleural effusion
Brucellosis
Brucella
respiratory system
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Pericardial effusion
Dermatology
respiratory tract diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
medicine
Etiology
Immunology and Allergy
Presentation (obstetrics)
Ultrasonography
business
Genetics (clinical)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1752-6981
Brucellosis is a worldwide zoonotic infection with a diverse clinical presentation. Pericardial and pleural involvement is rare in brucellosis. There is no presentation with pleural and pericardial effusion in childhood brusellosis. In endemic countries Brucellosis must thought as an unknown etiology of pericardial and pleural effusion.