SEROLOGICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON BRUCELLA INFECTION IN ONE HUMPED CAMELS”(CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS) IN EGYPT | ||
| Veterinary Medical Journal (Giza) | ||
| Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 83-89 PDF (2.67 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/vmjg.2000.375599 | ||
| Authors | ||
| F EL-SEEDY1; A RADWAN1; MONA EL-SHABRAWY2 | ||
| 1Department of Microbiology, Fac. Vet. Med., Cairo University, Beni-Suef Branch. | ||
| 2National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Scrodiagnosis supported by bacteriological exam-ination is esscntial for the identification of brucel-losis in camels. Out of 750 camel sera under in- vestigation, 29 (3.9%) werc positive brucclla reactors to the buffer acidified plate antigen test (BAPA) and’ 37 (4.9%) were positive to Rose Bengal plate test (RBPT). The higher incidence of bruccllosis were recorded among camcls aged more than 5 ycars old and those between 4-5 years old. A total of 37 camel's serum samples positive to RBPT were subjected to both serum tube agglutination and complement fixation tests with reliability reaching 86.5% and 94.6% respeclively. Correlation between positive RBPT and the rate of brucella isolation from 23 she-camels are described in details. Brucella organisms were isolated from 20 out of 23 serologically positive she-camels (87.0%). Morphological, cultural, bio-chemical and serological identification of the iso-lated brucella strains revealed the presence of Br.Abortus biovar “1I" (55.0%), Br. Abortus biovar“7" (30.0%) and Br. melitensis(15.0%). | ||
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