Volume 3, Number 2—June 1997
THEME ISSUE
From the 1st International Conference on Emerging Zoonoses
From the 1st International Conference on Emerging Zoonoses
Brucellosis: an Overview
Table 3
Brucellosis in animals, Asia, 1994
| Bovine |
Ovine/caprine |
Porcine |
Ovine |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | (B. abortus) | (B. melitensis) | (B. suis) | (B. ovis) |
| Afghanistan | + | + | ND | ND |
| Bangladesh | + | + | ND | ND |
| Bhutan | + | - | - | ND |
| China | + | + | + | + |
| Hong Kong | ND | ND | ? | ND |
| India | + | + | ?+ | - |
| Indonesia | + | ND | + | + |
| Iran | + | + | - | - |
| Israel | - | + | - | - |
| Iraq | + | + | ND | ND |
| Jordan | - | ++ | - | - |
| Korea (S) | ++ | - | ?+ | - |
| Kuwait | ++ | ++ | - | - |
| Malaysia | + | - | ?- | - |
| Mongolia | ++ | + | - | + |
| Myanmar | + | ND | + | ND |
| Oman | ++ | ND | ND | ND |
| Qatar | ND | ND | ND | ND |
| Sri Lanka | ++ | + | - | + |
| Syria | + | ND | ND | ND |
| Thailand | + | - | + | - |
| Turkey | ++ | ++ | - | ND |
| UAE | - | + | - | + |
| Yemen | + | + | - | - |
- not present
+ low sporadic incidence
++ high incidence
? presence uncertain
ND no data
None of the four types of brucellosis is present in Bahrain, Cyprus, Japan, Malaysia (Sabah), Philippines, or Singapore
No data for countries of the former Soviet Union or Qatar
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