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CASE REPORT
Acquired Brucella bacteraemia in a young infant
  1. Ambar Bhatnagar1,
  2. Daisy Khera1⇑,
  3. Kuldeep Singh1,
  4. Anuradha Sharma2
  1. 1 Department of Peadiatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
  2. 2 Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Daisy Khera, pushpinderdaisy{at}gmail.com

Summary

An infant aged 6 weeks presented with failure to thrive since birth, fever and lethargy for 4 days. The child was fed on unpasteurised diluted goat’s milk after birth. She was diagnosed to have brucellosis both by blood culture and serology. Her mother’s Brucella serology was negative. She was successfully treated with injection amikacin and tablet rifampicin and had satisfactory weight gain thereafter. Acquired brucellosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of failure to thrive in young infants.

  • Infections
  • Failure to thrive
  • Infant health

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-217522

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    • Contributors The first author contributed to the conception and design, literature search, drafting the article and revising it critically and final approval of the version to be published and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the article.

      The second author contributed to the conception and design, literature search, drafting of the article and revising it critically and final approval of the version to be published and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the article.

      The third author contributed to the drafting of the article, revising it critically and final approval of the version to be published.

      The fourth author contributed to the drafting of the article, revising it critically and final approval of the version to be published.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Parental/guardian consent obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.