Indian Journal of Animal Research

SCOPUSWeb of Science
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 54
  • Issue: 4

Detection of Brucella antibodies in selected wild animals and avian species in Pakistan

  • Author:
  • Shahzad Ali, Samra Saleem1, Muhammad Imran1, Muhammad Rizwan1, Khizar Iqbal1, Ghulam Qadir1, Haroon Ahmad2, Sajid Umar3, Waseem Ahmad Khan1, Iahtasham Khan1, Heinrich Neubauer4
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 478 to 481

1University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

2Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Chak-Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan

3Pir Mehr Ali Shah-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

4Institute of Bacterial Infection and Zoonoses, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Jena, Germany

Abstract

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease which affects humans, farm animals and wildlife as well. In Pakistan, the status of human and farm animal brucellosis is documented but the information about brucellosis in wildlife is lacking. To access the seroprevalence of Brucella antibodies in avian (turkeys, peafowl, guineafowl, mallard ducks and Indian blue rock pigeon) and selected wild species (reptiles and amphibians), a total of 117 serum samples (reptile = 34, amphibian = 04, avian n = 79) were collected from Karachi and Pattoki regions of Pakistan. Serum samples were screened for Brucella antibodies using Rose Bengal plate test (RBPT) and 11.1% serum samples were found positive. Overall, 2.5% birds, 29.4% reptiles and 25% amphibians were seropositive for Brucella antibodies. This is first report of detection of Brucella antibodies in reptiles and amphibians in Pakistan.

Keywords

Amphibian, Avian, Brucellosis, Pakistan, Reptiles