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Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Human Brucellar Spondylodiscitis
Published on: May 23, 2021
[An outbreak of brucellosis in a village in Jiangsu province]
Lunhui Xiang1, Weizhong Zhou2, Fenyang Tang2
1Baoshan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 201901, China; Chinese Field Epidemiology Training Program, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Objective:
To investigate the cause and related risk factors of an outbreak caused by Brucellosis.
Methods:
Epidemiological investigation and laboratory test were carried out among occupationally invloved population including sheep slaughters and sellers in the village.
Results:
18 people were serology positive among the 129 occupationally involved persons under survey. Seven of them were confirmed cases, 11 were latent infection, to make the overall attack rate as 14%. 90% of the sheep were from high-risk areas of Brucella. Among the occupationally involved persons, 89% of them never wore face masks, 84% never wear overalls and 70% never wear gloves. Factors as:work but wearing no gloves (RR = 7.4, 95%CI:1.1-53.0), with hand wound (RR = 3.4, 95%CI:1.1-11.0) could increase the risk of Brucella infection.
Conclusion:
The cause of this outbreak was due to the plentiful influx of unchecked sheep from the northern part of China and the employees in the process of sheep slaughtering or trading were lack of effective prevention programs.
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