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ArticleBiosafety and health2025

An infant brucellosis meningitis caused by

Guowu Shen, Xiaohua Zhao, Jie Chen, Xuehui Zhang, Xin Wang, Zhiguo Liu, Zhenjun Li, Canjun Zheng

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Article in Biosafety and health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Guowu ShenQinghai Provincial Women and Children's Hospital, Xining 810007, China.
Xiaohua ZhaoQinghai Provincial Women and Children's Hospital, Xining 810007, China.
Jie ChenComprehensive Technology Service Center of Quanzhou Customs, Quanzhou 362000, China.
Xuehui ZhangQinghai Provincial Women and Children's Hospital, Xining 810007, China.
Xin WangQinghai Provincial Women and Children's Hospital, Xining 810007, China.
Zhiguo LiuNational Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institution for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.
Zhenjun LiNational Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institution for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.
Canjun ZhengChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brucellosis poses a significant health threat to the population, particularly to vulnerable populations, including infants. In this investigation, we retrospectively analyzed the infection source and potential transmission route in a three-month-old infant with febrile seizure. Bacteriology methods, epidemiological survey, Rose Bengal plate test (RBPT), and standard tube agglutination test (SAT) were used to diagnose the disease, and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) was applied to identify the strain. The study revealed that the infant's parents had been diagnosed with brucellosis due to occupational exposure to infected sheep. The

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Brucella strainDiagnosisInfant brucellosisMeningitisRose Bengal plate test (RBPT)Standard tube agglutination test (SAT)

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PMID40453473
PMCPMC12125697

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