Volume 14, Number 12—December 2008
Dispatch
Multicenter Study of Brucellosis in Egypt
Hassan Samaha, Meshref Al-Rowaily, Ramadan M. Khoudair, and Hossam M. Ashour
Table 2
Prevalence of Brucella spp. in milk or tissues of animals, Egypt, 2007*
| Location | Cattle, no. positive/no. tested |
Buffaloes, no. positive/no. tested |
Sheep, no. positive/no. tested |
Goats, no. positive/no. tested |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milk |
Tissue |
Milk |
Tissue |
Tissue |
Tissue |
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| SRA | SNRA | SRA | SNRA | SRA | SNRA | SRA | SNRA | SRA | SNRA | SRA | SNRA | ||||||
| Alexandria | 2/10 | 0/11 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/6 | 0/19 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Behera | 2/9 | 0/9 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/5 | 0/20 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 0 | 0/5 | |||||
| Monofia | 4/20 | 0/12 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/7 | 0/18 | 2/5 | 0/5 | 0 | 0/5 | 0/2 | 0/5 | |||||
| Qalioubia | 2/20 | 0/10 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 2/6 | 0/3 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/2 | 0/5 | |||||
| Giza | 4/20 | 0/10 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 1/7 | 0/6 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Benisuef | 6/20 | 0/21 | 2/5 | 0/5 | 1/10 | 1/15 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 1/4 | 0/5 | |||||
| Assiut | 1/5 | 0/7 | 1/5 | 0/5 | 0 | 0/5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 21/104 | 0/80 | 6/35 | 0/35 | 7/41 | 1/86 | 6/30 | 0/30 | 4/20 | 0/25 | 2/8 | 0/20 | |||||
*SRA, samples from serologically reactive animals; SNRA, samples from serologically nonreactive animals.
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