Laboratory originated brucellosis, maintains its importance in areas like our country where brucellosis is still endemic. Brucella species are highly contagious when handled in the laboratory. Clinicians should alert the laboratory workers when brucellosis is suspected so that the specimens are handled by workers carefully. But despite the enforcement of infection control measures including the use of biological safety cabinet in the laboratory, laboratory acquired brucellosis still maintains its importance because of handling infected samples by the workers.

Consequently, laboratory transmission risk reduction depends on efforts to reduce number of infected animals and to lower the disease endemicity level in humans.