Comparative Serological Study of Brucellosis in Aborted and Non-Aborted Buffalo

Abstract

The current study aimed to determine the seroprevalence of Brucella in buffalo by use of five serological tests, for this purpose 205 serum sample were collected form buffalo in different physiological and pathological status. The result showed Rose Bengal test give positive results in rate of 10.73%. While tube agglutination test and 2mercaptoethanol test give positive results in rate of 4.39%, 4.87 % respectively. ELISA test gave positive results in rate of 7.80%.  Coomps test succeed to diagnose 4 case out of 15 (26.6%) as positive which negative to all serological tests