National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease, affecting high-risk occupational groups who are in close contact with animals. This report describes a young field veterinarian who suffered from high fever, night sweat, chills, myalgia, tremors, and distinct cervical lymphadenopathy. The laboratory test for tuberculosis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection revealed negative. The individual was suspected of brucellosis due to his occupational thrust and endemicity of brucellosis in this region and tested positive by Rose Bengal Precipitation Test (RBPT) and Standard Agglutination Test (SAT). He was treated with doxycycline and rifampicin for 6 weeks and resolved from infection after treatment. Human brucellosis is the tip of the iceberg for animal brucellosis and to identify the source of infection, one health strategy was applied and identified the sheep which he was treating for dystocia as a source of infection. Further investigation revealed a higher prevalence of 21.42% among small ruminants in his working region by serological tests viz. RBPT, SAT, and I-ELISA. By this case report and investigation, we emphasize, Human brucellosis along with the high prevalence of animal brucellosis warrants an integrated approach in the prevention and control of brucellosis.
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