Remzi Ekici, Mine Filiz, Sefa Onus, Ali Gokhan Akcay, Tolga Bakir, Galip Buyukturan, Emine Gul Aydin, Mustafa Ekici, Musa Aydinli, Cemal Nuri Ercin
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Abstract
Brucellosis is a common zoonotic disease with a wide variety of clinical manifestations. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a rare form among them. Here, we present the case of a 63-year-old woman with newly diagnosed liver cirrhosis complicated with ascites and diagnosed as spontaneous bacterial peritonitis with Brucella spp. growth in culture, and the literature is reviewed.