Brucellosis (Brucella species)

Clinical criteria
Any person with fever
AND at least one of following seven:

• Sweating (profuse, malodorous, specially nocturnal)
• Chills
• Arthralgia
• Weakness
• Depression
• Headache
• Anorexia

Laboratory criteria
At least one of the following two:

• Isolation of Brucella spp. from a clinical specimen
• Brucella specific antibody response (Standard Agglutination Test, Complement
  Fixation, ELISA)

Epidemiological criteria
At least one of the following four epidemiological links:

• Exposure to contaminated food/drinking water
• Exposure to products from a contaminated animal (milk or milk products)
• Animal to human transmission (contaminated secretions or organs e.g. vaginal discharge, placenta)
• Exposure to a common source

Case classification
A. Possible case
NA
B. Probable case
Any person meeting the clinical criteria and with an epidemiological link
C. Confirmed case
Any person meeting the clinical and the laboratory criteria

Current as of: 7 March 2019