“…4,6 The clinical manifestations of a cervical Brucella SEA are spinal pain with palpation, local tenderness, and fever, but all of these are non-specific findings. 1,4,5,7 Our patient had a history of neck pain and fever lasting more than 20 days. Because of the subacute-chronic course of brucellar SEA in our patient, there were no systemic symptoms of brucellosis before the diagnosis of SEA, such as malaise and headache, except for his fever at the time of admission.…”