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Human brucellosis is not a common disease. It is transmitted to man from animals such as cattle, pigs and goats. Man contracts the disease directly from infected animals, contaminated secretions or excretions and products of conception, the latter being particularly hazardous. Organisms invade through small abrasions of the skin or by the ingestion of raw milk by the host. Because of the danger to public health, the general population nowadays is protected by compulsory pasteurisation of milk destined for human consumption, with the result that human brucellosis is now primarily an occupational disease.
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Buchanan T.M.; Sulzer, C.R.; Frix, M.K. and Feldman, R.A.: Brucellosis in the United States, 1960–1972. An abattoir associated disease Part II. Diagnostic aspects. Medicine 53: 415–425 (1974).
Henderson, R.J.; Hill, D.M.; Vickers, A.F.; Edwards, J.M.B. and Tiller, H.E.: Brucellosis and veterinary surgeons. British Medical Journal 2: 656–659 (1975).
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Wilson, J.D., Simpson, S.I. (1980). Brucellosis. In: Diagnostic Immunology and Serology: A Clinicians’ Guide. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1126-1_3
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