Concomitant Brucellosis and Tuberculosis

THE following case is reported because the patient presented a baffling combination of clinical and laboratory evidences of severe acute disease and because the association of brucellosis and hematogenous tuberculosis has not, to our knowledge, been previously recorded.Case ReportM. A., a 36-year-old farmhand, was first seen at the White River Junction Veterans Administration Hospital on November 18, 1949, having arrived by ambulance from a farm some distance away in a comatose condition. A meager history was obtained by telephone from a brother, who stated that the patient had first complained of headache about 3 weeks before admission. This . . .