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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2015

Hospital-associated transmission of Brucella melitensis outside the laboratory.

Christopher F Lowe, Adrienne J Showler, Suzette Perera, Susan McIntyre, Roohi Qureshi, Samir N Patel, Vanessa Allen, H Roslyn Devlin, Matthew P Muller

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Intraoperative Transmission of Brucellae.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025
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  4. An Unusual Case ofJournal of bone and joint infection · 2019
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  6. Journal of bone and joint infection · 2017
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  8. Brucellosis in a refugee who migrated from Syria to Germany and lessons learnt, 2016.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Christopher F Lowe
Adrienne J Showler
Suzette Perera
Susan McIntyre
Roohi Qureshi
Samir N Patel
Vanessa Allen
H Roslyn Devlin
Matthew P Muller

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brucella melitensis was identified in an aspirate obtained from a patient's hip joint during a procedure at a hospital in Canada. We conducted an investigation into possible exposures among hospital workers; 1 worker who assisted with the procedure tested positive for B. melitensis. Aerosol-generating procedures performed outside the laboratory may facilitate transmission of this bacterium.

Indexed as

Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalLaboratory PersonnelOccupational ExposureBrucella melitensisBrucellosisCross InfectionFemaleHumans

Identifiers

PMID25531198
PMCPMC4285263

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