A serological survey of ovine and caprine brucellosis in slaughterhouses of East Azerbaijan province during 2004

Subject Areas : Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Afshin Javadi ¹ , قهرمان Akrami Nojadeh ² , M.R Javadi ³ , مهدی Ahmad Khanli ⁴

1 - Department of Food Hygiene, Veterinary Faculty, Islamic Azad University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
2 - Food and Drug Administration, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran.
3 - Graduated from Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
4 - Graduated from Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

Received: 2008-01-04 Accepted : 2008-01-04 Published : 2007-05-22

Keywords: Sheep, Goat, meat, slaughterhouse, Brucellosis,

Abstract :

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease which could be transmitted from animals to humans by ingestion of contaminated raw milk, dairy products or contact with meat or raw animal products. Thus, determination of brucella contaminated sheep and goat meat due to the risk of brucellosis transmission to human was the purpose of the present study. For this study, blood samples were collected directly during slaughtering from 441 female sheep and 300 female goats with an age of over a year slaughtered at abattoirs of East Azarbaijan province. At first, positive samples were separated by Rose Bengal test and then quantited with Wright and 2-ME tests. All the results were compared with standard veterinary tables and the data were analyzed using the Chi-Square test. According to this research, the prevalence rate of brucellosis among sheep and goats was 4.53% and 5.33% respectively. The prevalence rate of sheep and goat brucellosis in Shabestar city was significantly higher than other cities (P<0.01) but there was no significant difference between sheep and goat brucellosis.

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