Brucellosis a possible link to Increased Stillbirths: A Population based
Study from Malta, 1919-1954
Abstract
This study is novel in that it quantitatively exams the impact of human
brucellosis, an endemic zoonotic disease in Malta from 1919 until 1954,
and the impact on reproductive loss through stillbirths. Based on
regression analysis, brucellosis had a statistically significant effect
(t = 2.8986, p = 0.0039) on stillbirth rate for males, but the effect of
brucellosis on stillbirths is not statistically significant for females
(p = 0.9103). This paper points to the importance of brucellosis, one of
the most common zoonotic diseases, as having implications for health
burden in women and fetuses in the contemporary context; this
relationship has been largely ignored in the literature.