Brucellosis in Children
Open Access
- 1 December 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 37 (196) , 628-639
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.37.196.628
Abstract
Brief details of 17 cases of brucellosis in children up to 15 years, admitted to hospital between 1940 and 1958, are discussed. The diagnosis in each of these cases is the final one arrived at in hospital and usually based on positive agglutination and the clinical picture; only one had a positive blood culture. Attention is drawn to the continuing important role of infected raw milk in the etiology of this disease in childhood. Children from 0 to 15 years account for approximately 30% of hospital admissions for brucellosis in the Oxford region. Reasons for this are discussed. Progressively improving recognition may be a factor in the higher percentage of children in the general series from which these 17 cases are drawn than is usual in series of brucellosis cases.Keywords
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