Human Brucellosis Presenting with Rheumatic Manifestations: An Underdiagnosed Condition in Eastern India

Saurabh Pandey; Manoj Kumar Gupta; Priyanka Rai; Arnab Patra; Nazneen Nahar Begum; Prantiki Halder; Subhashsish Kamal Guha

doi:10.4103/jgid.jgid_324_21

Human Brucellosis Presenting with Rheumatic Manifestations: An Underdiagnosed Condition in Eastern India

J Glob Infect Dis. 2025 Feb 24;17(1):60-62. doi: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_324_21. eCollection 2025 Jan-Mar.

Authors

Saurabh Pandey¹, Manoj Kumar Gupta², Priyanka Rai³, Arnab Patra⁴, Nazneen Nahar Begum⁴, Prantiki Halder⁴, Subhashsish Kamal Guha⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
² Department of Gastromedicine, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
³ Department of Pathology, Autonomous State Medical College, Basti, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁴ Department of Tropical Medicine, School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Abstract

Human brucellosis is a chronic systemic infection mostly presenting as afebrile illness with musculoskeletal complaints with organomegaly and diagnosis is based on serology. The diagnostic tests are sparsely available in India and even less prescribed. We report six cases of human of brucellosis presenting as fever with rheumatic manifestation along with their outcome.

Keywords: Eastern India; human brucellosis; outcome; relapse; rheumatic.

Publication types

Case Reports