Efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis to preventing brucellosis in accidental exposure: A systematic review.
Sarah Nascimento SilvaGláucia Fernandes CotaKathiaja Miranda SouzaMarina Gonçalves de FreitasJanaína de Pina de CarvalhoEndi Lanza GalvãoPublished in: Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH (2024)
PEP is an alternative practice reported in the literature, used in accidents with high-risk exposure to Brucella. The currently available evidence of the efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis is insufficient to support a recommendation for or against the widespread use of antibiotic prophylaxis, so caution is needed in interpreting results due to the very low certainty of evidence, primarily stemming from case series and lack of comparative groups.