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.
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.
Brucellosis, camel, Indian report, sero-surveillance