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Neonatal Brucellosis and Breast Milk

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In this case report the authors present an extremely low birth weight premature infant with neonatal brucellosis whose mother had been treated for brucellosis during pregnancy. Infant developed mild respiratory distress syndrome soon after birth. At 2nd wk of postnatal age findings of bronchopulmonary dysplasia were evident and she and her mother were diagnosed to have brucellosis at the same time. After commencement of antibrucellosis therapy and nonspesific treatment for bronchopulmonary dysplasia, infant was completely cured of the symptoms related to both brucellosis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The results of the present case and a review of the literature have let to conclude that Brucella might have role in development of prematurity and bronchoplumonary dysplasia. Since discovery of brucella bacilli in early periods of 20th century, fetotoxicity of brucella bacilli seems to increase gradually suggesting an increasing virulance of the bacilli or vanishing host defense of human beings.

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  1. Department of Neonatology, Yüzüncü Yıl University Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey

    Abdullah Ceylan, Murat Köstü, Oğuz Tuncer, Erdal Peker & Ercan Kırımi

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Ceylan, A., Köstü, M., Tuncer, O. et al. Neonatal Brucellosis and Breast Milk. Indian J Pediatr 79, 389–391 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-011-0581-z

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Keywords

  • Brucellosis
  • Transmission
  • Breast milk
  • Neonatal