study on serological survey of Malta fever [brucellosis]

ABSTRACT

Brucellosis is mainly an occupational disease, a highly significant difference could he detected between workers in contact with dairy animals and those not in contact with animals by Standard Tube Agglutination Test [S.A.T] and Rose Bengal Plate Agglutination. [R.B.P.A.] Children are affected very much less often than adults, the odd low incidence in children is unexplained, the age group of 14-53 years showed higher positivity rate than the other groups. Brucella agglutinating antibodies are found in a high proportion of the studied population [25.5 percent] which may suggest that exposure to brucella organisms is widespread in Egypt