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2009, Cilt 23, Sayı 1, Sayfa(lar) 001-004
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PANCYTOPENIA IN NINE CASES OF BRUCELLOSIS
Şua SÜMER1, Gaye URAL2, Nazlım AKTUĞ DEMİR1, Onur URAL1
Selçuk Üniversitesi Meram Tıp Fakültesi, Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Bakteriyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Konya
2Sağlık Bakanlığı Konya Numune Hastanesi, İntaniye Kliniği, Konya
Keywords: Brucellosis, pancytopenia

The purpose of this study is to present the clinical picture in pancytopenic brucellosis cases. Among 86 patients diagnosed to have brucellosis at the Hospital of Meram Faculty of Medicine and Konya Numune Hospital, Konya, Turkey, in the 1998-2005 period, pancytopenia was found in 9 of the cases. All 86 patients had clinical symptoms with standard tube agglutination test positivity, and blood culture was positive in 22.2 %. In 6 of the pancytopenic patients the route of infection transmission was determined, and all of these patients had fever. Doxycycline + rifampin therapy was given to 7 patients, and 2 patients with articular involvement received doxycycline + streptomycin therapy. After therapy the leucocyte, thrombocyte and hemoglobulin values of all patients returned to normal levels. No relaps was detected in one year follow-up.

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