Patterns of Brucellosis Infection Symptoms in Azerbaijan: A Latent Class Cluster Analysis

• Published in: Journal of Tropical Medicine
• Main Authors: Rita Ismayilova, Emilya Nasirova, Colleen Hanou, Robert G. Rivard, Christian T. Bautista
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Rubin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/593873; https://doaj.org/article/1b3ddc71114d4086b3b4237374ced167

Brucellosis infection is a multisystem disease, with a broad spectrum of symptoms. We investigated the existence of clusters of infected patients according to their clinical presentation. Using national surveillance data from the Electronic-Integrated Disease Surveillance System, we applied a latent...