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Neha
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Waquar Ahmed
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Amit Kumar Verma
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Udit Jain
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Basanti Bist
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Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease of animals and man causing different
reproductive problems like abortion, retention of placenta, repeat breeding,
still birth and many more. In this report, authors described an investigation
of brucellosis outbreak in an organized dairy farm, Agra, India causing abortions
and other reproductive disorders. Blood and environmental samples including
feed and water samples were collected in sterile containers. About 80% sera
samples collected from aborted animals and 60% sera samples from pregnant and
in-contact animals, maintained at the dairy farm contained antibodies against
Brucella spp., while all the bulls were found negative for presence of
anti-Brucella antibodies. Escherichia coli and Streptococcus
spp., isolates were recovered from water samples, while Staphylococcus,
Streptococcus spp. and Pseudomonas spp. could be isolated from feed
samples. In the present investigation, high prevalence of anti-Brucella
antibodies was found in sera samples of the animals, indicates that they all
had an exposure to Brucella spp. which might be the probable reason of
abortion storm. Thus, on the basis of our findings, it can be deduced that Brucella
might be associated with abortion in dairy animals even without apparent septicaemia
or any other manifestations. The presence of anti-Brucella antibodies
in sera samples of animals can be used as an indicator of infection in farm
animals. |
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