BRUCELLOSIS AS A CAUSE OF SACROILIAC ARTHRITIS
- 4 September 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 138 (1) , 15-19
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1948.02900010017006
Abstract
Knowledge by physicians of bovine brucellosis as it affects cattle is almost zero. This paucity of knowledge is further complicated by the many accepted fallacies regarding epidemiology, clinical history and control of infection in animals and man. Better dissemination of present day knowledge and more research are needed for a disease which affects 30,000 to 40,000 persons annually in the United States.1Physicians generally hold to the idea that infected cattle are destroyed. This is not true. It is economic suicide and a practical impossibility to eradicate bovine brucellosis by slaughter of infected cattle. The generally accepted method of control of this infection in animals by veterinarians is by vaccination of calves and adult cows with strain 19.2The adult pregnant cow should be vaccinated before the fourth month of pregnancy; sanitary procedures and immediate ultimate removal of all animals showing a titer of 1: 100 or higherKeywords
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