Brucellosis Outbreak Caused by Brucella melitensis--Jingyang County,Shaanxi Province,China,March–May,2020
作者机构:Shaanxi Provincial Centre for Disease Control and PreventionXianShaanxiChina State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and ControlCollaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious DiseasesNational Institute for Communicable Disease Control and PreventionChinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionBeijingChina Jingyang County Centre for Disease Control and PreventionXianyangShaanxiChina Xianyang City Centre for Disease Control and PreventionXianyangShaanxiChina.
出 版 物:《China CDC weekly》 (中国疾病预防控制中心周报(英文))
年 卷 期:2020年第2卷第39期
页 面:753-756页
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学科分类:1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学]
摘 要:What is already known about this topic?Brucellosis is one of the world’s most overlooked zoonotic diseases,and humans can easily acquire brucellosis from animals and their *** brucellosis outbreaks are probably attributable to sociocultural factors and compounded by the lack of adequate control measures in sheep and goat rearing *** is added by this report?This is the first identified outbreak caused by Brucella melitensis bv.3 in Jingyang County,Xianyang City,Shaanxi Province.A total of 13 seropositve cases(7 acute patients and 6 asymptomatic persons)were identified from March to May,2020,and the investigation indicated that sheep-to-canine-to-human was the likely transmission *** are the implications for public health practice?Effective control of sheep brucellosis will significantly reduce the risk of human *** should be given to building cooperation between all stakeholders,maintaining epidemiological surveillance to detect human brucellosis at medical centers,and making case reporting mandatory for both veterinary and public health services.