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Acute brucellosis presenting with erythema nodosum.

Division of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Heraklion Crete, Voutes, Greece.
European Journal of Epidemiology (impact factor: 4.71). 02/2003; 18(9):913-5. pp.913-5
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT Brucellosis is a common world-wide zoonotic disease. Cutaneous manifestations are not specific and affect 1-14% of patients with brucellosis. We describe two cases of young males presenting with skin lesions of erythema nodosum on the anterior surface of the legs. Histopathology of skin biopsy revealed septal panniculitis, but the positive cultures of blood or bone marrow for Brucella melitensis established the diagnosis of brucellosis.

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Keywords

Brucella melitensis
 
brucellosis
 
cases
 
common world-wide zoonotic disease
 
Cutaneous manifestations
 
erythema nodosum
 
legs
 
septal panniculitis
 
skin biopsy
 
skin lesions