Suppuration and Calcification of the Liver and Spleen Due to Long Standing Infection withBrucella suis

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Abstract
HUMAN brucellosis in the United States is rarely associated with suppurative complications, probably because the vast majority of cases are due to Brucella abortus, the least invasive of the three species of brucellae, and because of the efficacy of the antibiotics in the therapy of the acute illness. When chronic suppuration and caseation of tissues and organs do occur, the disease is usually caused by Br. suis. It is of historical interest that the first human case of brucellosis due to Br. suis was reported by Dr. Chester S. Keefer,1 when he was a resident physician at Johns . . .