A study of prevalence and sociodemographic characters of brucellosis at tertiary health care center
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction : Brucellosis is a disease, which may be termed as undulant in more sense than one, for like in grass, it steals silently towards its victim, whom it then strike down, not often for the grave but may be for weeks, months or even years of misery, disablement and frustration. Aims and Objectives: To Study Prevalence and Sociodemographic Characters of Brucellosis at Tertiary health care center. Materials and methods: The present study consists of cases selected from indoor admissions from the Krishna hospital and medical research Centre, admitted in the Krishna hospital and medical research Centre starting from January 2000 to December 2001The patients of undiagnosed fever for one week with the routine investigation were included in this study, patients having common causes of fever like malaria, enteric fever, tuberculosis, U.T.I etc. with obvious and clear-cut diagnosis were rejected from this study. Result: Out of the 6 diagnosed cases the Antigens were BLP, AMP, BSK, KPK, SAP, and MC Srespectively. Majority of the cases were Males i.e. 5 and 1 case was female There were 6 cases one - 10-20 years, Two- 30-40 years, One- 40-50 years, Two- 50-60 years. By Occupation three were Farmers, One- Veterinary staff, One- Housewife, One - School boy most common symptoms were Fever- 11, Body ache- 7, Weakness- 6, Arthralgia- 4, Anorexia- 5. Hepalomegaly- 2, Splenomegaly- 3, lymphadenopathy- 1.By syndrome like Brucellosis the final diagnosis was Brucellosis – 6, Atypical enteric fever- 7 Chronic malaria- 8, Viral hepatitis – 14, Liver abscess- 8, Tuberculosis- 17, U T I- 6, Rheumatic fever- 4. Conclusion: In our study the most common symptoms were Fever, Body ache, Weakness Arthralgia, Anorexiaand most common occupations were Farmers, Veterinary staff, HousewifeSchool boy there were 8.57%(6 out of 70) prevalence of Brucellosis among suspected brucellosis patients at tertiary health care Centre.
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Sanjay T Thorat, Rachna S Thorat
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