- PART 1 Introduction
- PART 2 Bacterial, chlamydial, and rickettsial zoonoses
- Chapter 6 Anthrax
- Chapter 7 Brucellosis
- Chapter 8 Verocytotoxin-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> (VTEC) infections
- Chapter 9 Lyme borreliosis
- Chapter 10 Tick-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 11 Flea-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 12 Epidemic and murine typhus
- Chapter 13 Scrub typhus
- Chapter 14 Listeriosis
- Chapter 15 Mycobacterioses
- Chapter 16 Campylobacteriosis
- Chapter 17 Chlamydiosis
- Chapter 18 Q fever
- Chapter 19a Other bacterial diseasesDiseases caused by corynebacteria and related organisms
- Chapter 19b Other bacterial diseasesAnaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and neorickettsiosis
- Chapter 19c Other bacterial diseasesPasteurellosis
- Chapter 19d Other bacterial diseasesRat-bite fevers
- Chapter 19e Other bacterial diseasesStreptococcosis
- Chapter 19f Other bacterial diseasesCat-scratch disease
- Chapter 19g Other bacterial diseasesErysipeloid
- Chapter 19h Other bacterial diseasesStaphylococcal zoonoses
- Chapter 20 Leptospirosis
- Chapter 21 Yersiniosis and plague
- Chapter 22 Glanders
- Chapter 23 Salmonellosis
- Chapter 24 Tularaemia
- PART 3 Viral zoonoses
- PART 4 Parasitic zoonoses
(p. 54) Brucellosis
- Chapter:
- (p. 54) Brucellosis
- Author(s):
J. Zinsstag
, E. Schelling
, J. Solera
, J. M. Blasco
, and I. Moriyón
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0007
Brucellosis has been successfully controlled and eliminated in a number of countries by effective, well managed vaccination and test-slaughter strategies. Their cost was essentially borne by national governments including the cost of acceptable compensation for culled animals. Brucellosis is, however, endemically persisting in livestock and causing human disease in the Mediterranean region, Africa, the Near East and Central America and is re-emerging as a major preventable disease in countries of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. There has been significant progress in knowledge of the molecular biology of Brucellosis and with new antibiotics for the treatment of human cases. Significantly more efficacious and safe animal vaccines in terms of reduction of transmission are still lacking. Control strategies that have been successful in Western countries are not directly applicable to low income and transition countries because their national governments do not have the finance to compensate farmers and lack the technical capacity for effective control campaigns. However, new staged control approaches in developing economies are proving effective.
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- PART 1 Introduction
- PART 2 Bacterial, chlamydial, and rickettsial zoonoses
- Chapter 6 Anthrax
- Chapter 7 Brucellosis
- Chapter 8 Verocytotoxin-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> (VTEC) infections
- Chapter 9 Lyme borreliosis
- Chapter 10 Tick-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 11 Flea-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 12 Epidemic and murine typhus
- Chapter 13 Scrub typhus
- Chapter 14 Listeriosis
- Chapter 15 Mycobacterioses
- Chapter 16 Campylobacteriosis
- Chapter 17 Chlamydiosis
- Chapter 18 Q fever
- Chapter 19a Other bacterial diseasesDiseases caused by corynebacteria and related organisms
- Chapter 19b Other bacterial diseasesAnaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and neorickettsiosis
- Chapter 19c Other bacterial diseasesPasteurellosis
- Chapter 19d Other bacterial diseasesRat-bite fevers
- Chapter 19e Other bacterial diseasesStreptococcosis
- Chapter 19f Other bacterial diseasesCat-scratch disease
- Chapter 19g Other bacterial diseasesErysipeloid
- Chapter 19h Other bacterial diseasesStaphylococcal zoonoses
- Chapter 20 Leptospirosis
- Chapter 21 Yersiniosis and plague
- Chapter 22 Glanders
- Chapter 23 Salmonellosis
- Chapter 24 Tularaemia
- PART 3 Viral zoonoses
- PART 4 Parasitic zoonoses