Peritonitis due to brucellosis in a patient newly diagnosed with liver cirrhosis complicated by ascites: A case report and literature review.

Brucellosis is a common zoonotic disease with a wide variety of clinical manifestations. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a rare form among them. Here, we present the case of a 63-year-old woman with newly diagnosed liver cirrhosis complicated with ascites and diagnosed as spontaneous bacterial peritonitis with Brucella spp. growth in culture, and the literature is reviewed.