Frequency of reported cases of Brucellosis to province health center from public and private sectors in Semnan 2006-2007

Abstract

Introduction: Brucellosis as a zoonosis is still a public health problem in many countries such as Iran. ‎To perform preventive, control and eradication policies about the disease, we need the ‎exact epidemiologic information and patterns of brucellosis in our country. In this study, we invstiagated frequency of reported cases of Brucellosis to province ‎health center from public and private sectors in Semnan during 2006-2007‎ Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, we only enrolled the patients who had brucellosis in 2006-7 and ‎there was a record of their disease in the public health centers of Semnan including ‎Sorkheh, Mehdishahr and Shahmirzad. A checklist was prepared for the patients and the ‎data analyzed by computer‎. Results: The findings showed that only 26 out of 62 (41.9%) patients with brucellosis had a ‎disease record in the health center of Semnan province. Private laboratories, educational ‎hospitals, general practitioner and specialist physicians’ surgeries reported only 7.6, 20, ‎‎18.2 and 50% of their diagnosed brucellosis cases to the health center of Semnan ‎province, respectively. Three patients with brucellosis who were diagnosed in non-‎educational hospitals had no a disease record in the health center of Semnan province. ‎Meanwhile, 93.7% of the cases were diagnosed in one of the public heath centers had a ‎disease record in the heath center of Semnan province.‎ Conclusion: These results showed therapeutic and diagnostic centers, except public heath centers, had no ‎enough attention for reporting of brucellosis cases to Semnan province public health ‎center. Therefore, there is no exact information about the number of brucellosis cases in ‎the province and it makes some difficulties about preventing and control of the disease