Fact sheets

The Department of Health, Western Australia, does not produce fact sheets on this topic.

Public Health action

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

Notifiable disease data and reports

• Up-to-date Brucellosis notification data

• General infectious disease reports

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual   

Case definition

Only confirmed cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence only.

Laboratory definitive evidence

1. Isolation of Brucella species
OR

2. IgG seroconversion or a significant increase in antibody level or a fourfold or greater rise in titre in Brucella agglutination titres or complement fixation titres between acute and convalescent phase serum samples. (Where possible both tests should be conducted at the same laboratory.)
OR

3. A single high Brucella agglutination titre