CLINICAL OR SEROLOGICAL IN BRUCELLOSIS?

Abstract

Brucellosis is a widespread infectious disease encountered throughout the world. Consuming infected cow milk, which was not put through any pasteurization process, or using it in cheese and butter production are significant infection sources. It reveals itself with symptoms like fever, perspiration, abdominal and joint pain.
In this case, we wanted to emphasize the significance of the repetition of diagnostic tests when brucellosis is considered clinically, and that brucellosis should be differential diagnosis in the presence of radiological sacroiliitis by the reason of a 19 year old male patient who applied with hip pain, that brucellosis was not considered due to the negative tubular agglutination tests, who was followed up with non-steroidal treatment and whose repeated agglutinations tests became positive after no improvement on his pain and increasing gait disturbance