Hematological Manifestations of Brucellosis: A MulticenterStudy from Turkey

  • Cesur, Salih
  • DEMİRASLAN, Hayati
  • Turhan, Vedat
  • Hatipıglu, Mustafa
  • Sumbul, Mustafa
  • Solmazgül, Emrullah
  • Yılmaz, Gürdal
  • Tosun, Selma
  • Avcı, Meltem
  • Kaygusuz, Türkkan Öztürk
Publication date
October 2015

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease. It leads a lot of different complications. One of the complications are hematological such as thrombocytopenia, leucopenia, anemia etc. It can be also mixed in with hematological malignancies.We aimed to document of brucellosis hematological manifestations and complications with the recent multicenter study in Turkey.METHODS: In this study, adult patients who were diagnosed during January 01, 2004-June 30, 2015 were included retrospectively.It was adopted as the diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of brucellosis; in the presence of clinical symptoms compatible with brucellosis, isolation bacteria from blood cultures or as serological (standard tube agglutination ≥1/1...

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