Brucellosis is a systemic infectious disease caused by Gram-negative bacilli, the genus
Brucella, and clinical features are diverse. Therefore, several infectious and non-infectious
diseases are considered in its differential diagnosis. In this study, we aimed to determine the
positivity rate of Brucella agglutination tests in the culture-positive brucellosis and in
diseases mimicking brucellosis clinically. Thirty patients with culture-positive brucellosis,
and 280 patients with the diseases mimicking brucellosis clinically (20 with miliary …