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<Articles JournalTitle="Acta Medica Iranica">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Acta Medica Iranica</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>0044-6025</Issn>
      <Volume>49</Volume>
      <Issue>5</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2011</Year>
        <Month>05</Month>
        <Day>15</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Pleural and Pericardial Effusions: Rare Presentations of Brucellosis, Iran</title>
    <FirstPage>325</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>326</LastPage>
    <Language>EN</Language>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Abdolreza</FirstName>
        <LastName>Soudbakhsh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Maryam</FirstName>
        <LastName>Roham</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>SeyedAhmad</FirstName>
        <LastName>SeyedAlinaghi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS (IRCHA), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Hamid</FirstName>
        <LastName>Emadi Kochak</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Willi</FirstName>
        <LastName>McFarland</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">University of California, San Francisco, USA.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2015</Year>
        <Month>09</Month>
        <Day>28</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">We report a rare case of brucellosis presenting with pleural and pericardial effusions in a 35 year-old male rancher in Iran with fever and dyspnea. Such findings should prompt inclusion of brucellosis in the differential diagnosis in endemic areas.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/3750</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/download/3750/3725</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
