Abstract
Chronic human brucellosis with pancytopenia in a young girl from a camp for Internally Displaced Persons
Highlights
On examination she was pale, anicteric, afebrile and had no lymphadenopathy
With the history of consumption of unpasteurised cow's milk and positive PCR for brucella we confirmed the diagnosis of chronic brucellosis associated with bone marrow suppression causing pancytopenia
Brucellosis is a chronic granulomatous zoonotic infection which can affect every organ of the human body
Summary
She had non-tender mild splenomegaly but liver was not palpable. Her Hb was 7.6 g/dL while White cell and platelet counts were 2.0x109/L and 25x109/L, respectively. Blood picture showed pancytopenia and possible iron deficiency anaemia. Serum protein electrophoresis showed normal albumin band with polyclonal increase in ɤ globulin.
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