Table 1.

Breast infections with brucellosis.

Study/year	Patient/age	Brucella preceding and associated infections	Brucella blood culture	Miscellaneous cultures	Antimicrobials	Treatment duration	country
Gasser et al. [16]	52 year old woman	Acute presentation with uveitis	No	Abscess culture	Doxycycline streptomycin	45 days 15 days	Spain
Al Abdely et al. [12]	39-year-old /woman	No information	N/A	Breast abscess	Doxycycline & TMP/SMX	3 months	Saudi Arabia
Tsironi et al. [13]	77 year old/woman	Yes, acute illness 5 days	No	Breast abscess	Doxycycline & streptomycin (1st infection)	8 weeks 3 weeks	Greece
Erdem et al.	63-year-old female	No information	No	Breast abscess	Tetracycline & rifampin	1 year	Turkey
Gurleyik et al. [17]	46 year old woman	3 months acute illness and spinal (L5-S1) abscess	No	Negative spinal and breast abscess culture	TMP-SMX Later Streptomycin Rifampin + tetracycline	2 weeks 4 months	Turkey
Akay et al.	52-year old woman	No information	No	None	Rifampin 600 mg/day and doxycycline 200 mg/day	8 weeks	Turkey
Ibis et al. [14]	48 year old/man	2 years night sweats. Bilateral breasts.	No	Abscess culture positive	Doxycycline & rifampin	Not specified	Turkey
Nemenqani et al. [15]	6 cases women						Saudi Arabia
With permission	45 year old woman	Bilateral abscesses three weeks	N/A	N/A	Rifampin & Tetracycline	7 weeks
	35 year old woman	L breast abscess. Systemic illness preceding	Surgical drainage & Antimicrobials	N/A		N/A
	20 year old woman	R breast abscess	N/A		TMP / SMX	2 months
	32 year old woman	Breast Abscess	N/A	Surgical drainage & Antimicrobials		N/A
	48 year old woman	L breast abscess	N/A	N/A	Doxycycline and Streptomycin	N/A
	32 year old woman	Left Breast abscess	N/A	N/A	Rifampin & Tetracycline	N/A