| [brucellosis: case report and synopsis of 10 cases (1973-1992) in the chur canton hospital]. | a 33-year-old patient from former yugoslavia presented with low back pain and fever. plain x-rays and myelography were normal, but a technetium-99m scan was suspect for vertebral osteomyelitis. serology and blood cultures were positive for brucella (melitensis). antibiotic therapy with tetracycline and rifampicine rapidly improved the signs and symptoms of the infection. a retrospective analysis of 11 cases of brucellosis treated in the kantonsspital, chur, over the years 1973 to 1992 revealed t ... | 1993 | 8272813 |