Brucellosis with multisystemic manifestations: Case report and literature review

An excerpt for a medical article I translated from Mexican Spanish to American English:


Brucellosis is an infection that affects mammals’ cells caused by a species from the genus Brucella, a gram-negative, immobile, facultative, intracellular, and microaerophilic coccobacillus. In humans, the pathogen species are Brucella melitensis, B. abortus, B. suis and B. canis [1-3]. Mexico is one of the countries with the highest incidence of human brucellosis in Latin America. Despite the programs implemented in the animal population and the progress achieved, it currently continues to be a public health problem. Its incidence has been reported of up to 3.7/100,000 inhabitants in women and up to 2.1/100,000 inhabitants in men (a possible explanation for this phenomenon is that women in Mexico tend to attend health centers more frequently than men, and more cases are detected in them, while in other countries, the highest incidence rates are found in males). Despite the fact that the disease has mortality in humans of less than 5%, the impact is mainly economic and social due to the high costs of its diagnosis, treatment and the disabilities caused [4]. We are presenting a case with confirmed brucellosis and the cardiovascular, cutaneous, gastrointestinal, hepatic, osteomuscular, renal, and hematological complications that came with it.