Epidemiological assessment of 5598 brucellosis inpatients in Spain (1997-2015)
| Autor: | Hugo Almeida, Virginia Velasco-Tirado, Javier Pardo-Lledias, Amparo López-Bernus, Ángela Romero-Alegría, José Luis Pérez Arellano, Beatriz Rodríguez-Alonso, Moncef Belhassen-García, Montserrat Alonso-Sardón |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Cantabria |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Databases Factual MEDLINE Mediterranean fever Brucellosis fever of intermediate duration Young Adult Risk Factors Environmental health Epidemiology Hospital discharge medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies Brucella spp Human brucellosis Aged Retrospective Studies Inpatients Original Paper malt fever business.industry Incidence Middle Aged medicine.disease Brucella Hospitalization Infectious Diseases Spain Cohort Christian ministry Female epidemiology Health information business |
| Zdroj: | Epidemiology and Infection Epidemiology and Infection 149, e149, 1-8 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4409 |
| Popis: | Brucellosis remains one of the main zoonoses worldwide. Epidemiological data on human brucellosis in Spain are scarce. The objective of this study was to assess the epidemiological characteristics of inpatient brucellosis in Spain between 1997 and 2015. A retrospective longitudinal descriptive study was performed. Data were requested from the Health Information Institute of the Ministry of Health and Equality, which provided us with the Minimum Basic Data Set of patients admitted to the National Health System. We also obtained data published in the System of Obligatory Notifiable Diseases. A total of 5598 cases were registered. The period incidence rate was 0.67 (95% CI 0.65–0.68) cases per 100 000 person-years. We observed a progressive decrease in the number of cases and annual incidence rates. A total of 3187 cases (56.9%) came from urban areas. The group most at risk comprised men around the fifth decade of life. The average (±s.d.) hospital stay was 12.6 days (±13.1). The overall lethality rate of the cohort was 1.5%. The number of inpatients diagnosed with brucellosis decreased exponentially. The group of patients with the highest risk of brucellosis in our study was males under 45 years of age and of urban origin. The lethality rate has reduced to minimum values. It is probable that hospital discharge records could be a good database for the epidemiological analysis of the hospital management of brucellosis and offer a better information collection system than the notifiable diseases system (EDO in Spanish). |
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