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Even though an effective treatment is available for this disease, treatment failure frequently occurs owing to delay in diagnosis, relapses and its prolonged clinical course. We present a 33-year-old man who was admitted to our internal medicine teaching unit service with non-specific symptoms. A workup revealed <jats:italic>Brucella<\/jats:italic> in the blood cultures. An abdominal ultrasound showed multiple splenic abscesses. 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