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Brucellosis incidence by country (cases per 100,000 person-years)

Brucellosis incidence by country (cases per 100,000 person-years)
Country Study level Incidence per 100,000 per year
North Africa and Middle East
Egypt Sub-national 0.28 to 70.00
Gaza Sub-national 8.00
Iraq Sub-national 52.29 to 268.81
Iran Sub-national* 0.73 to 141.60
Jordan National 25.70 to 130.00
Oman Sub-national 11.01
Saudi Arabia National 137.61
Sub-national 6.00 to 149.54
Turkey Sub-national 11.93 to 49.54
Sub-Saharan Africa
Chad Sub-nationalΔ 34.86
Western Europe
Germany National 0.03
Greece Sub-national 4.00 to 32.49
Italy National 1.40
Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan National 88.00
Central and Southern Latin America
Argentina Sub-national 12.84
Mexico Sub-national 25.69
North America
United States Sub-national 0.02 to 0.09
* Includes one study of a nomadic community.
¶ Children only.
Δ Nomadic community.
Adapted from: Dean AS, Crump L, Greter H, et al. Global burden of human brucellosis: a systematic review of disease frequency. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2012; 6:e1865. Copyright © 2012 Public Library of Science. Available at: https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0001865 (Accessed on July 23, 2019). Reproduced under the terms of the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
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