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85a-11
85A.11 DIAGNOSIS FOR BRUCELLOSIS.
1. When any employee is clinically diagnosed as having
brucellosis (undulant fever), it shall not be considered that the
employee has the disease unless the clinical diagnosis is confirmed
by:
a. A positive blood culture for brucella organisms, or
b. A positive agglutination test which must be verified by
not less than two successive positive agglutination tests, each of
which tests shall be positive in a titer of one to one hundred sixty
or higher. Said subsequent agglutination tests must be made of
specimens taken not less than seven nor more than ten days after each
preceding test.
2. The specimens for the tests required herein must be taken by a
licensed practicing physician or osteopathic physician, and
immediately delivered to the university hygienic laboratory of the
Iowa department of public health at Iowa City, and each such specimen
shall be in a container upon which is plainly printed the name and
address of the subject, the date when the specimen was taken, the
name and address of the subject's employer and a certificate by the
physician or osteopathic physician that the physician took the
specimen from the named subject on the date stated over the
physician's signature and address.
3. The state hygienic laboratory shall immediately make the test
and upon completion thereof it shall send a report of the result of
such test to the physician or osteopathic physician from whom the
specimen was received and also to the employer.
4. In the event of a dispute as to whether the employee has
brucellosis, the matter shall be determined as any other disputed
case. Section History: Early Form
[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 85A.11] Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1032, §201
