a rare osteoarticular brucellosis in gonabad city, iran: a case report

Introduction: species of bacteria brucellosis, which can infect humans, are brucella abortus, b melitensis, b. suis and rarely b. canis. case presentation: a 71yearold woman with severe pain in the limbs, especially the left pelvic pain was admitted to 22 bahman hospital in gonabad, iran. the patient’s erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr) was 100 and creactive protein (crp) had positive finding. urea creatinine, liver enzymes, u/a and u/c had normal results. a signal change in the soft tissue adjacent to the posterior surface of the vertebral body l4l5 was observed. according to wright and 2 mercaptoethanol (me) negative results, patient was reintroduced to neurosurgeon. due to severe bone pain, radiotherapy was stopped and she was referred for treatment with bone tuberculosis diagnosis to a health center in gonabad city, iran. daily streptomycin was started for patient and after 10 days, she referred to health center with a good general health status and without pelvic pain. conclusions: prominent musculoskeletal complaints (especially back pain) accompanied by constitutional symptoms such as fever, malaise and weight loss may be consistent with brucellosis.