Myocarditis Caused by Brucella melitensis in the Absence of Endocarditis: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 3

Published case reports referring to Brucella myocarditis.

Publication	Gender	Age	Treatment	Follow-up
Gur et al. [10]	Woman	25 y	Streptomycin and tetracycline	Relapse after 4 months
Lubani et al. [11]	Boy	10 y	Tetracycline for two weeks; Streptomycin for three weeks	Two-year follow-up showed no relapse
Jubber et al. [12]	Man	55 y	Doxycycline and rifampicin	No follow-up
Efe et al. [4]	Woman	51 y	Streptomycin for 3 weeks; Doxycycline for 6 weeks	3-month follow-up: asymptomatic
Elkiran et al. [13]	Girl	3 months	Gentamycin, Bactrim, and rifampicin	Four-month follow-up: no relapse
Pandit et al. [6]	Woman	32 y	Streptomycin and doxycycline	Worsened and died due to pulmonary odema
Gatselis et al. [2]	Man	34 y	Streptomycin for 3 weeks; Doxycycline and rifampicin	One-year follow-up: no symptoms, no relapse
Gatselis et al. [2]	Man	17 y	Streptomycin for 3 weeks; Doxycycline and rifampicin	One-year follow-up: no symptoms, no relapse
Adid et al. [8]	Man	32 y	Streptomycin for 2 weeks	3-month follow-up: no relapse
			Doxycycline and rifampicin for 12 weeks
Abid et al. 2012 [8]	Man	20 y	Cotrimoxazole and rifampicin	No follow-up
Khorasani and Farrokhnia 2014 [5]	Man	22 y	Cotrimoxazole, doxycycline, and rifampicin for 3 months	Two-month follow-up: asymptomatic
Pandit et al. 2010 [6]	Man	27 y	Doxycycline, rifampicin for 12 weeks, and gentamycin for 10 days	After several months, the patient was asymptomatic