Journal of Camel Practice and Research
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue: 2

A report of seroprevalence of camel brucellosis in India

  • Author:
  • Rajeswari Shome1, V.K. Gupta2,, B. Bhardwaj3, B.R. Shome, M. Nagalingam1, H. Rahman1
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 183 to 186

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.

Keywords

Brucellosis, camel, Indian report, sero-surveillance