A report of seroprevalence of camel brucellosis in India Shome Rajeswari1, Gupta V.K.2,,*, Bhardwaj B.3, Shome B.R., Nagalingam M.1, Rahman H.1 1Project Directorate on Animal Disease Monitoring and Surveillance (PD_ADMAS), Hebbal, Bangalore, 560 024, India 2Central Institute for Research on Goats, Makhdoom, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh-281 122, India 3Department of Animal Husbandry, Government of Rajasthan, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India *Email: vivekgupta@scientist.com
Online published on 18 April, 2014. Abstract Among 78 camel serum samples tested, 7(8.9%) and 3 each (4.9%) were positive for anti Brucella antibodies by RBPT, ELISA and SAT, respectively. Interestingly, in PCR, one female camel out of 42 camel sera DNA amplified 223bp product specific to Brucella genus. Top Keywords Brucellosis, camel, Indian report, sero-surveillance. Top |