Brucella Seropositivity at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chandigarh
Uneza Husain,
Sunil Sethi,
Rakesh Yadav
Abstract:There are reports that the neglected zoonotic tropical disease brucellosis is reemerging today. Serological tests are being widely used in the diagnosis of brucellosis. In the present study, we performed a standard agglutination test (SAT) on 1348 suspected cases of brucellosis during the period of four years from April 2018 to March 2022. We noticed an increase in seropositivity from 2.6% in the year 2018-19 to 7.4% in the year 2021-22. We also noticed a spike in seropositivity in the years 2019-20 (12.5%). O… Show more
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