Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Mathura (U.P.)
In present study the isolation of 3 strains of Brucella abortus has been considered very significant because they were isolated from 3 cows which were serologically positive for brucellosis. The infected animals may easily transmit brucellosis to human being by direct or indirect contact. The 3 strains of isolated bacteria were highly sensitive to streptomycine, ciprofloxin, chloramphenicol, norfloxacin and sensitive to kanamycin, rifampicin, tetracycline and resistant to amoxicillin, bacitracin, neomycin, penicillin, sulphadiazine and erythromycin.
Brucellosis is a contagious zoonotic disease affecting humans and animals especially in developing countries. In humans, disease is associated with fever, chill, malaise night sweats, bodyache and anorexia. In animals the brucellosis is characteriiedby abortion and still births in females and orchitis epididimitis with frequent sterility in males. As the disease is transmitted efficiently under natural conditions Bitsur animals and man, it ranks as one of the most important zoonetic diseases. Brucella abortus with cattle strains of B. abortus were isolated from vaginal swab from cases of abortion as well as seropositive cases (Swann et al., 1981; Stringfellow et al., 1983; Huber and Nicoetti, 1986; Das et al., 1987; Chatterjee et al., 1995; Poester, 1978; McGaughey and Hanna, 1969).
