title: [Human brucellosis in Burundi. Serologic survey in Rusizi Plain].
abstract: A serological survey was carried out on human brucellosis in Rusizi plain in Burundi from october 1984 to september 1985: 1,087 human sera were investigated by means of the rose bengal test and the technic of Wright's sero-agglutination. It comes out of this survey that: the aggregate prevalence of positive serology is 6.6%; such a prevalence is significantly higher in professionally at risk people (7.9%) than in people contaminated by food (3.5%).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002007:Brucellosis, Bovine / Q000453:epidemiology; D002063:Burundi; D002417:Cattle; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012698:Serologic Tests
vernacular_title: La brucellose humaine au Burundi. Enquête sérologique dans la plaine de la Rusizi.