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Volume 2006, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

A Bangladeshi male patient with a culture positive Brucellosis had severe pancytopenia andfever. Patient was found to have Hemophagocytosis. He had uneventful recovery after treatment of Brucellosis. Discussion of the case and its treatment is presented

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