Brucellosis is a public health problem in southern Italy: Burden and epidemiological trend of human and animal disease
| Autor: | Alessio Facciolà, Giovanni Puglisi, Giuseppa Visalli, Fernanda Marano, Isa Picerno, M A R Palamara, Angela Di Pietro, Giuseppa D'Andrea, Domenico Magliarditi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine Brucellosis Epidemiology Public Health Zoonosis Cattle Diseases Disease Outbreaks Zoonoses Prevalence Child Sicily Aged 80 and over Goats Incidence lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Incidence (epidemiology) General Medicine Middle Aged Raw milk Infectious Diseases Child Preschool Female Adult medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent 030106 microbiology Sheep Diseases lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Environmental health medicine Animals Humans lcsh:RC109-216 Aged Goat Diseases Sheep business.industry Public health Infant Newborn Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant Outbreak lcsh:RA1-1270 medicine.disease Cattle business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Infection and Public Health, Vol 11, Iss 6, Pp 861-866 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1876-0341 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jiph.2018.07.007 |
| Popis: | Background: Brucellosis is the most common global bacterial zoonotic disease. Italian annual 2015 report on animal brucellosis control that was submitted to the Integrated National Plan of the Italian Health Ministry showed that the Italian region with the highest prevalence and incidence of brucellosis was Sicily (3.3%). This study aims to demonstrate the burden of disease and the epidemiological trend of human and animal brucellosis in Messina, Sicily, from 1997 to 2016. Methods: The analysis was conducted in the twenty-years 1997–2016. We examined the computerised and paper registers of the Messina Provincial Health Agency n.5 to evaluate human and animal brucellosis reports. Results: 1462 cases of human brucellosis were reported with an important outbreak in 2016 in which were reported 137 cases while the prevalence of infected cattle and sheep/goats decreased from 3.8% and 8%, respectively, in 1997 to 1.7% for both in 2016. A statistically significant correlation was observed between the decrease of both animal and human cases during the considered period. Conclusions: Our study demonstrate that brucellosis is still present in Sicily with a number of cases identified in both animals and humans and it hypothesises a large number of probable underreported cases. Our findings confirm the need to improve knowledge of the risks associated with consuming raw milk and its derivatives, mainly from sheep and goats, and demonstrates that public health would benefit from cooperation between human and veterinary health services. Keywords: Brucellosis, Zoonosis, Epidemiology, Public Health |
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