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BRUCELLOSIS Introduction ● Brucellosis is a worldwide zoonotic (transmitted by an animal) bacterial disease. ● Notifications of brucellosis in Victoria are now rare and generally represent imported infections or undiagnosed chronic infections. ● It is also known as Undulant fever, or Mediterranean fever. Epidemiology ● The sources of infection and responsible organism vary according to the geographic area. ● Affected regions include the Mediterranean countries, North and East Africa, Western Africa, the Middle East, India and Central and South America. Pathology Organism: Brucellosis caused by the bacterial genus Brucella. The organisms are small aerobic intracellular coccobacilli. Infectious agents may include: ● Brucella abortus (biovars 1–6 and 9) ● Brucella melitensis (biovars 1–3) ● Brucella suis (biovars 1–5) ● Brucella canis B. abortus was successfully eradicated from Australian cattle herds during the national eradication campaign in 1989. B. suis is still isolated occasionally from feral pigs in Queensland and represents a risk to people who hunt and butcher feral pigs. Transmission ● Brucellosis can be transmitted by contact with infected tissues, blood, urine, vaginal discharges, aborted animal foetuses and especially placentae. ● It can also be transmitted by ingestion of raw milk and dairy products from infected animals. ● Outbreaks are generally attributed to inhalation of aerosols which may occur in animal pens and stables, abattoirs and laboratories, or through ingestion of unpasteurised milk products. ● A small number of cases have occurred following accidental self-inoculation of the strain 19 animal Brucella vaccine. Incubation Period ● The incubation period is highly variable. ● It is most commonly one to two months but ranges from five to sixty days. Reservoir ● The most important reservoirs for human infection are cattle, swine, goats, sheep and dogs. ● Infections may also occur in other wild ungulates. ● B. canis has occasionally been identified in laboratory dogs. Period of Communicability ● There is no evidence of communicability from person to person. Susceptibility and Resistance ● Everyone is susceptible to infection. ● Severity and duration of clinical illness are subject to wide variation. ● Duration of acquired immunity is uncertain. Clinical Features 1. Brucellosis is a systemic disease with acute or insidious onset. 2. Subclinical and unrecognised infections are frequent. 3. Acute and chronic (a year or more) illness may occur. 4. Fever is the most common symptom, it may be intermittent, (hence the term “undulant” fever) 5. Non-specific constitutional symptoms may include: ● Headache ● Anorexia ● Myalgias ● Lethargy/ malaise 6. Localized suppurative infections may occur. 7. Complications: ● Osteoarticular complications are common, but osteomyelitis is less common. ● Endocarditis, (uncommon). The case-fatality rate in untreated brucellosis is approximately 2% and this is mostly due to endocarditis from B. melitensis infections. Investigations 1. Micro & culture: ● 2. Laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis is made by isolating the infectious agent from blood, bone marrow, other tissues or discharges of the patient. Serology: ● Serological testing for Brucella is useful but often difficult to interpret. ● Current serological tests allow a precise diagnosis in over 95% of cases, but it is necessary to combine a test (Rose Bengal and seroagglutination) detecting agglutinating antibodies (IgM, IgG and IgA) with others detecting non-agglutinating antibodies (Coombs-IgG or ELISA-IgG) developing in later stages. Except in the case of B. canis, where diagnosis requires tests detecting antibodies to rough-lipolysaccharide antigens. Management 1. Supportive as indicated. 2. Antibiotics Adults ● Doxycycline and rifampicin. Children ● Trimethoprim & sulfamethoxazole and rifampicin. Preventive Measures ● Educate the public, particularly travellers, against drinking unpasteurised milk or eating dairy products produced from such milk. ● Boiling milk is effective in killing the organisms when pasteurisation is not available. ● Educate farmers and handlers of potentially infected animals such as feral pigs to reduce exposure and exercise care in handling placentae, discharges and foetuses. Search for and investigate livestock at risk of infection. Control of Contacts ● Although there is no person to person transmission of brucellosis, contact tracing is done as part of the case investigation to identify those people who have been exposed to the same implicated source of Brucella infection as the case. ● These people are advised of the early signs and symptoms of brucellosis to aid early diagnosis and treatment. Vaccination ● No human vaccine is available. School Exclusion ● School exclusion is not required.