Prevalence and risk factors of brucellosis among veterinary health care professionals

Autor: Habibur Rahman, Padmashree B Shankaranarayana, Sukhadeo B. Barbuddhe, Ashok Kumar, Nagalingam Mohandoss, Prashanth Giribattanvar, Nagarathna Chandrashekar, Triveni Kalleshamurthy, Bibek Ranjan Shome, Rajeswari Shome
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Indirect elisa
Adult
DNA
Bacterial
Male
Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary medicine
Adolescent
medicine.medical_treatment
Health Personnel
030106 microbiology
India
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Disease
Microbiology
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Brucellosis
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Direct agglutination test
Surveys and Questionnaires
Health care
medicine
Prevalence
Animals
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Igg elisa
Aged
Aged
80 and over
business.industry
Artificial insemination
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
General Medicine
Original Articles
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Antibodies
Bacterial
Infectious Diseases
Immunoglobulin M
Joint pain
Immunoglobulin G
Parasitology
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Zdroj: Pathogens and global health. 111(5)
ISSN: 2047-7732
Popis: The study describes prevalence, clinical symptoms and risk factors for brucellosis in personnel engaged in veterinary health care in Karnataka, India. A total of 1050 sera samples were collected from animal handlers, veterinarians, veterinary students, para-veterinarians and persons engaged in artificial insemination of animals. The sera samples were tested for brucellosis by Rose Bengal plate test (RBPT), serum agglutination test (SAT), IgG and IgM indirect ELISA and PCR. Age, sex, clinical symptoms and risk factors were recorded in structured questionnaire. Of the 1050 samples tested, 6.76, 6.38, 3.90, 2.67 and 2.0% were positive by IgG ELISA, RBPT, SAT, IgM ELISA and PCR, respectively and overall prevalence recorded was 7.04%. The prominent clinical symptoms observed were intermittent fever (71.62%) followed by joint pain and body aches. A high degree of suspicion, awareness and multimodal diagnostic approach is suggested for early diagnosis, treatment and disease follow up.
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