Occupational exposure to livestock and risk of tuberculosis and brucellosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Occupational diseases are caused by zoonotic pathogens, which spread to humans through various types and intensities of human-livestock contact at work. In the present era, human brucellosis and tuberculosis remain the predominant occupational diseases throughout the world. However, the actual percentage of reported cases that are acquired from various livestock-related occupational groups is not well known. Therefore, we carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of previous scatter studies mentioned the occurrence of human brucellosis and tuberculosis. From 2000 to 2021, a computer search of PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, BioMed and Scopus was conducted and finally we found 71 studies (brucellosis = 54, tuberculosis = 17), which were included in this meta-analysis to calc

SUBMITTER: Mia MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9582573 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature