Table 1.
Case reports describing laboratory exposures to Brucella spp. and laboratory-acquired brucellosis
| Author(s) (reference) | Yr published | Country | No. of cases/no. exposed | No. receiving PEP | No. with risk level |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | None | Unknown | |||||
| Gossens et al. (42)a | 1983 | Belgium | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Young (33)a | 1983 | U.S. | 2/2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Elidan et al. (46)a | 1985 | Israel | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Montes et al. (45) | 1986 | Spain | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Al-Aska and Chagla (31)a | 1989 | Saudi Arabia | 4/4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgihiou and Young (41)a | 1991 | U.S. | 1/1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Young (34)a | 1991 | U.S. | 5/5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Batchelor et al. (12)a | 1992 | Kenya/United Kingdom | 2/2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chusid et al. (25)a | 1993 | US | 3/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kiel and Khan (36) | 1993 | Saudi Arabia | 6/7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Gruner et al. (26)a | 1994 | Switzerland | 5/5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Martin-Manzuelos et al. (71) | 1994 | Spain | 4/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Wheat et al. (29) | 1995 | United Kingdom | 0/11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arlett (43)a | 1996 | Britain | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grammont-Cupillard et al. (13)a | 1996 | France | 3/3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Zervos and Bostic (38) | 1997 | U.S. | 0/3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Brew et al. (64) | 1999 | United Kingdom | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Fiori et al. (32)a | 2000 | Italy | 12/38 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 39 | 0 |
| Yagupsky et al. (39)a | 2000 | Israel | 7/7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Memish and Mah (35)a | 2001 | Saudi Arabia | 6/6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Memish et al. (37)a | 2001 | Saudi Arabia | 1/1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gannon (30) | 2003 | U.S. | 0/3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Noviello et al. (27)a | 2004 | U.S. | 2/2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ozaras et al. (61) | 2004 | Turkey | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Robichaud et al. (28)a | 2004 | Canada | 1/26 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Wallach et al. (60)a | 2004 | U.S. | 1/1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Uhde et al. (44) | 2005 | U.S. | 0/9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Maley et al. (14) | 2006 | Australia | 0/44 | 7 | 19b | 25 | 0 | 0 |
a
Cases described in this report were used to calculate incubation period.
b
Twelve of these workers were classified as having medium-risk exposure in the original publication.