It is term used as a convenient description for all phases of the disease caused by a bacteria called Brucella. Many names have been applied to it as: 1. Malta fever 2. Mediterranean fever. 3. Gibraltar or rock fever 4. Undulant fever
This version is made for bilingual teaching .Case-control study is an essential research design of Epidemiology, which involves identifying patients who have the outcome of interest (cases) and control patients who do not have that same outcome, and looking back to see if they had the exposure of interest. The exposure could be some environmental factor, a behavioural factor, or exposure to a drug or other therapeutic intervention