ACUTE BRUCELLOSIS

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Infections with Brucella organisms are being more frequently diagnosed in recent years than formerly, and the clinical and pathologic aspects of the disease are more widely recognized. The old names "undulant fever" and "Malta fever" are giving way to the more scientific term "brucellosis,"1mainly because the clinical syndromes of the three causative organisms, Brucella abortus, suis and melitensis, cannot be differentiated. Although patients having the disease usually recover, an occasional one succumbs. We are reporting here a case of Brucellosis having the unusual occurrence of fatal pulmonary embolism. REPORT OF CASE A white man, aged 46, an urban laborer, presented himself for examination because of progressive weakness and cough of three months' duration. The cough was unproductive. His appetite had failed and he had suffered from constipation since the onset of the malaise. He believed that he had been having fever a good share of the time, but he had

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