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ArticleJournal of occupational health2018

Emergency response to occupational brucellosis in a pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprise.

Weiming Yuan, Meibian Zhang, Hua Zou, Xiangjing Gao, Yuqing Luan

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Article in Journal of occupational health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Weiming YuanZhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Meibian ZhangZhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6839-737X
Hua ZouZhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Xiangjing GaoZhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Yuqing LuanZhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Zhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesHuman brucellosis, as a zoonosis, is a serious public health problem in many developing countries, including China. To date, there has been no case report on occupational brucellosis and the emergency response in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The aim of this report is to describe an emergency brucellosis outbreak in this unusual setting and the associated treatment methods from an occupational health perspective.

methodsThe emergency response included a field epidemiological investigation, a hierarchy of control strategy, and validation of control measures.

resultsSeven workers in the defrosting, grinding, and hydrolysis departments suffered from human brucellosis during two periods. The main symptoms were whole-body joint pain and undulant fever for several weeks, and Brucella-specific serum antibody was found in the patients. A hierarchy of exposure control strategy was implemented, including elimination, engineering control, administrative control, and the use of personal protection equipment. Raw material and environmental monitoring, measurement of placental temperature, Escherichia coli inactivation tests, and health examinations demonstrated that these measures were effective.

conclusionsThis report describes an emergent case and the response to two consecutive outbreaks of occupational brucellosis among workers in a pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprise. The hierarchical control strategy used in this case may prevent new outbreaks, and several lessons can be learned from this event.

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Drug IndustryAdultBrucellaBrucellosisChinaDisease OutbreaksEmergenciesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedOccupational DiseasesOccupational ExposureBrucellaBrucellosisEmergencyInfectious diseaseOccupational exposure

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PMID30068856
PMCPMC6176033
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