Designated as WOAH Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis at 77th WOAH general session in May, 2009.
Dr. Jin-Ju Lee
[Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency]
Bacterial Disease Division
[Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency]
Brucellosis in sheep and goat of Bogra and Mymensingh districts of Bangladesh(2012-01-10) | |||||
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Part | Animal and Plant Health Research | Charger | Moon Her | date | 2012-01-10 |
Md. Siddiqur Rahman, Md. Ferdous Ali Hahsin, Md. Shamim Ahasan, Moon Her*, Jeong Yeong Kim, Sang Il Kang, Suk Chan Jung. 2011. Brucellosis in sheep and goat of Bogra and Mymensingh districts of Bangladesh. Korean J. Vet. Res. 51(4), 277-280 Abstract Brucellosis is the most important bacterial disease of livestock in Bangladesh. The present study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of brucellosis in goat and sheep in Mymensingh and Bogra districts of Bangladesh using slow agglutination test and Rose Bengal test as screening test and I-ELISA as confirmatory test. Questionnaire based data on age, gender, area, client’s complaint, number of animals in herds, disease history, reproductive problems such as abnormal uterine discharge, abortion or previous abortion in sheep and goat and their reproductive diseases were recorded. A total of 200 sera samples were collected from 80 sheep and 120 goats. The prevalence of brucellosis in goat was 2.50% and 1.25% in sheep. Positive reactors were only detected in female of both goat and sheep. In this study, there existed a significant association among abortion and the prevalence of brucellosis (p<0.01). The prevalence of brucellosis in sheep and goat in Bangladesh is not negligible, and it is therefore worth considering the adoption of preventive measures. |
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