Human brucellosis in personnel of a slaughter-house of the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Spinola, Ademário G.
• Data de Publicação: 1972
• Outros Autores: Costa, Moacyr Dunham de Moura
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/4642
• topic: Brucelose humana; Saúde ocupacional; Sorologia; Brucellosis; human; Occupapational health; Sorology

Human Brucellosis, from the point of view of its serologic, occupational and clinic aspects, was studied in a slaughter-house personnel at the Salvador city, State of Bahia, Brazil. Sorologic test showed 10.58% frequency, as a characteristic aspect of work time. So, 55.55% of positive cases were more than 5 years old at the same activity, with the type of work as a remarkable aspect. At hog and gut sectors, a positivity of 33.33% and 30.00% was found. Clinical symptoms, beside his subjectivity and the fashion that it was performed in a apparently health community, were much more frequent between the positive ones. The necessity of to know the amount of population exposed risk is emphasized, as a possibility of detection of real brucellosis prevalence at the region.