Refik Mas M, Isik Ahmet Turan, Doruk Hüseyin, Cömert Bilgin
GATA Department of Internal Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Indian J Gastroenterol. 2003 Sep-Oct;22(5):190.
We report a 54-year-old woman with hepatitis B-related chronic liver disease with ascites who developed spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. Blood and fluid cultures grew Brucella; the patient was working at an animal husbandry till one year ago. She responded to therapy with streptomycin and tetracycline.