INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, cilt.17, sa.6, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Brucellosis, a disease endemic in many countries including Turkey, is a systemic infectious disease. Cardiovascular complications are not frequent, and endocarditis is the main cardiac manifestation of brucellosis. Pericarditis in the absence of concomitant endocarditis is extremely rare.