Al Shehhi Nawal, Aziz Faisal, Al Hosani Farida, Aden Bashir, Blair Iain
Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Centre, Khasab Hospital, Khasab, Oman.
Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, PO Box 17666, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
BMC Infect Dis. 2016 Oct 12;16(1):558. doi: 10.1186/s12879-016-1900-9.
Worldwide, human brucellosis remains an important and widespread infection. In the past, there were limited data on the occurrence of human brucellosis in the United Arab Emirates and the reported incidence appeared to be low compared with similar areas. In 2009, a new web-based infectious disease surveillance system was introduced in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. This paper reports data from this new system on human brucellosis for the 6 years 2010 to 2015.
A dataset was extracted for each case of human brucellosis reported to the notification system for the 6 year period January 2010 to December 2015. Annual brucellosis rates by age-group, gender, nationality and, geographical region were calculated and compared.
A total of 480 cases of brucellosis were reported. The overall crude notification rate was 3 · 3 per 100,000 population but higher rates were seen in certain population subgroups notably expatriate males of working age in the Eastern Region (approximately 10 per 100,000) and UAE nationals of all ages and both genders in Abu Dhabi (between 4 -- 24 per 100,000).
These findings reflect environmental and behavioral factors linked to occupation and leisure time activities associated with the large number of small non-commercial livestock farms in Abu Dhabi. Controlling human brucellosis in these circumstances will be challenging.
在全球范围内，人类布鲁氏菌病仍然是一种重要且广泛传播的感染病。过去，关于阿拉伯联合酋长国人类布鲁氏菌病发病情况的数据有限，与类似地区相比，报告的发病率似乎较低。2009年，阿布扎比酋长国引入了一个新的基于网络的传染病监测系统。本文报告了该新系统在2010年至2015年这6年间关于人类布鲁氏菌病的数据。
提取了2010年1月至2015年12月这6年期间报告给通报系统的每例人类布鲁氏菌病病例的数据集。计算并比较了按年龄组、性别、国籍和地理区域划分的年度布鲁氏菌病发病率。
共报告了480例布鲁氏菌病病例。总体粗通报率为每10万人3.3例，但在某些人群亚组中发病率较高，特别是东部地区工作年龄的外籍男性（约每10万人10例）以及阿布扎比所有年龄和性别的阿联酋国民（每10万人4至24例）。
这些发现反映了与阿布扎比大量小型非商业性畜牧场相关的职业和休闲活动所涉及的环境及行为因素。在这种情况下控制人类布鲁氏菌病将具有挑战性。
