Avdikou I, Maipa V, Alamanos Y
University of Ioannina, Medical School, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Ioannina, Greece.
Epidemiol Infect. 2005 Oct;133(5):905-10. doi: 10.1017/S0950268805003973.
Despite a European co-financial programme for control and eradication of brucellosis in Southern Europe, there is evidence that foci of brucellosis still exists in Greece and other Southern European countries. Human brucellosis cases are probably underreported in these countries. A local surveillance system was implemented in a defined region of Northwestern Greece, in order to record and study all human brucellosis cases, using several sources of retrieval. A total of 152 newly diagnosed cases were recorded during a 2-year study period (from 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2004). The age- and sex-adjusted mean annual incidence rate for the population of the study area was 17.3 cases/10(5) inhabitants. Incomplete application of the control and eradication programme in livestock, and the possible illegal trafficking of animals and their products across the Greek-Albanian border could be responsible for the persistence of foci of brucellosis in the area.
尽管欧洲有一个共同资助的项目用于控制和根除南欧的布鲁氏菌病，但有证据表明，希腊和其他南欧国家仍存在布鲁氏菌病疫源地。在这些国家，人类布鲁氏菌病病例可能报告不足。在希腊西北部一个特定地区实施了当地监测系统，以便利用多种检索来源记录和研究所有人类布鲁氏菌病病例。在为期两年的研究期间（从2002年4月1日至2004年3月31日），共记录了152例新诊断病例。研究区域人口的年龄和性别调整后的年平均发病率为每10万居民17.3例。牲畜控制和根除计划执行不彻底，以及动物及其产品可能通过希腊-阿尔巴尼亚边境非法贩运，可能是该地区布鲁氏菌病疫源地持续存在的原因。
