Abstract

Brucellosis may cause a vast variety of hematologic manifestations, as one of the major infectious diseases in developing countries. Thrombocytopenia is among the very rare presentations, especially when it is the only manifestation. This report was aimed to show that how an isolated thrombocytopenia can lead to brucellosis diagnosis. Hereby, we reported a young woman with a history of recent diagnosed brucellosis who admitted to the hospital with purpuric rashes with severe thrombocytopenia that was first suspected to have idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. As one of the most important diseases in endemic areas such as Iran, it is important to rule out brucellosis induced thrombocytopenia in the patients which presented with thrombocytopenia along with some other differential diagnosis of isolated thrombocytopenia such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

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