Fatal Brucellosis Infection in a Liver Transplant Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Previous reported cases of brucellosis in liver transplant recipients.

Case	1	2	3	4
Author/year of publication	POLAT/2012	ISLEK/2013	XIE/2014	ROSSO/2021
Age in years/gender/country	15/M/Turkey	7/F/Turkey	39/M/China	63/M/Colombia
Time after transplant	2 months	2 years	2 years	10 years
Clinical features	Fever, diarrhea, headache, and herpetic lesion	Fever	Fever, sweats, cough, headache, and insomnia	Fatigue, dispnea, myalgia, paresis of the extremities, and jaundice
Diagnosis	Serology and bone marrow culture	Agglutination test and immunocapture test	Blood culture	Blood culture
Complication	Hematologic	None	None	Brain, lung, kidney, and spleen abscesses
Treatment	Doxycycline and rifampin for 8 weeks	TMP-SMZ and rifampicin for 12 weeks	TMP-SMZ and rifampicin for 8 weeks	Doxycycline and ciprofloxacin
Outcome	Alive	Alive	Alive	Death