Night Sweats in Medicine / Internal Medicine — 28yo Woman | Infectious Diseases | SMLE Q#16463
SMLE Question #16463
Medicine / Internal Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Objective: OBJ-349
Last updated: February 2026
A 28-year-old woman has 3 weeks of fatigue, malaise, diffuse arthralgia, low back pain, and intermittent fever with night sweats after drinking unpasteurized goat milk. Examination shows mild hepatosplenomegaly and lumbosacral tenderness. Blood cultures grow small gram-negative coccobacilli. MRI shows sacroiliac spondylitis. She is started on combination antibiotic therapy for brucellosis. What is the optimal total duration of antibiotic therapy for brucellar spondylitis?
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