Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31695516›Full record

ArticleInternational medical case reports journal2019

Imported Brucellosis In The Era Of Dramatically Increasing Immigrants And Foreign Travelers From Endemic Areas: Occupational Hazards Of Secondary Infection Among Laboratory Technicians In A Nonendemic Country.

Takahiko Fukuchi, Nobue Yanagihara, Koichi Imaoka, Hitoshi Sugawara

Open access · goldAbstract readCase Reports
In one paragraph

Article in International medical case reports journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Biosafety Research Road Map: The Search for Evidence to Support Practices in the Laboratory-Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · 2023
    Review
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Takahiko FukuchiDivision of General Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Omiya, Saitama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6192-1653
Nobue YanagiharaDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, Fukaya Red Cross Hospital, Fukaya, Saitama, Japan.
Koichi ImaokaLaboratory of Reservoir Control of Zoonoses, Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5869-2201
Hitoshi SugawaraDivision of General Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Omiya, Saitama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5060-9020
Jichi Medical University · JPNational Institute of Infectious Diseases · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBrucellosis, an important zoonotic disease, is endemic in various parts of the world. Patients diagnosed with brucellosis in developed countries are often travelers and immigrants from endemic areas. This pathogen is listed as biosafety level 3, which means that it is highly contagious and therefore a risk to clinical laboratory technicians. CASE PRESENTATION: A 43-year-old Chinese man, who could not understand Japanese, visited our hospital because of an intermittent fever that had persisted for 5 months. Associated symptoms included muscle pain whenever he had a fever. He reported currently working as a welder in Japan. However, his previous employment working in animal husbandry in Heilongjiang, mainland China was not determined at the initial visit owing to language barriers. Two sets of blood culture showed nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli, initially misidentified as

conclusionIn nonendemic countries, immigrants with imported brucellosis can be treated, to prevent secondary brucellosis infection, an occupational hazard among laboratory technicians. Greater attention is needed for positive findings of blood cultures, which may initially be misidentified as

Indexed as

Brucella abortusimported brucellosislaboratory-acquired infectionlaboratory exposureOchrobactrum anthropizoonosis

Identifiers

PMID31695516
PMCPMC6814359
OpenAlexW2981133314

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.