Reza Ghaffari
Islamic Azad University, Iran
Title: Investigating prevalence of brucellosis in sheepdogs of Oroumieh, Iran
Biography
Biography: Reza Ghaffari
Abstract
Brucellosis, which is so called as undulant fever, Malta fever or Mediterranean fever, is a common bacterial disease between human being and livestock. Brucellosis is a zoonosis and mostly it is permeated by having direct or indirect contact with infected animals or on the second level by the products’ of these infected animals. Vaccination program in both small and large ruminants is running by the Veterinary organization. Although it is for complete eradication of the disease, all the affected and positive test animals must be obliterated. However, the risk of contagion remained in animals’ population. The aim of this investigation is to find out the prevalence of brucellosis in sheepdog in specific districts of Oroumieh city in West-Azerbaijan, Iran. This study lasted for 10 months, started from first of August 2015; during this time 256 dogs were sampled by collecting the blood sample from the cephalic vein, and the samples assay was performed in Reference Laboratory of West-Azerbaijan Veterinary Department. After separation of serum, Rose-Bengal test for screening of samples was done. Positive samples were investigated with Wright and 2-mercaptoethanol (2ME) tests and the ultimate positive results were extracted. Regarding the final results, 28 dogs had positive samples which indicate 10.94% contamination in examined dogs. Due to the wide breeding of sheep, goats, cattle, and buffalo in West-Azerbaijan and on the other hand having dogs living among the herd, and with respect to the results of this study, the necessity of paying attention to brucellosis in sheepdogs was proved and for this issue, the followings are recommended: isolation of pregnant animals with sheepdogs in any condition; well education to animal husbandry for preventing of eating aborted fetus and exposed placenta by sheepdogs and; bio-security and sanitary observation.