A comprehensive Review on Human brucellosis

Brucellosis is a major bacterial zoonosis of human beings transmitted usually by direct contact with infected animals, their secretions and consuming milk or milk products. The disease occurs worldwide in animals as well as humans. Brucellosis in human beings is a multisys tem disease with severe clinical manifes tations in patients depending upon the site of infection and organ involved. Human brucellosis affects all age groups and considered as one of the mos t common laboratory acquired infections. The disease often remains under-diagnosed and under-reported due to poor seroprevalence s tudies which further pose difficulty in the eradication program. By following suitable brucellosis eradication s trategies in animals, human brucellosis can correspondingly be controlled. The present article discusses about different aspects of human brucellosis and its control.