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An Unusual Outbreak of Brucellosis
Kenrad E. Nelson, MD;
Frederick L. Ruben, MD;
Burton Andersen, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1975;135(5):691-695.
Abstract
A Brucella melitensis infection involved three persons. The infections were acquired by contact with a culture suspension that had been spilled during a laboratory exercise. One of the patients had only indirect contact with the spilled culture, probably contact with contaminated fomites. Another of the patients developed a clinical remission before treatment with antibiotics and relapsed after six months. This patient also had a positive bone marrow culture when blood cultures were negative. The type of antibody response persisting in the sera of convalescents was studied by treating the sera with mercaptoethanol and rabbit antihuman IgM sera. In the patient who relapsed, IgG antibody predominated, whereas IgM persisted for over two years in the patient without relapsing disease.
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health and the Department of Medicine, Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago. Dr. Ruben is now at Montefiore Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh.
Footnotes
Received for publication Nov 29, 1973; accepted June 3, 1974.
Reprint requests to Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 835 S Wolcott St, Chicago, IL 60612 (Dr. Nelson).
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