The prevalence of brucellosis in cattle in White Nile state, Sudan

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This study was conducted in White Nile State in order to investigate the prevalence of bovine brucellosis.

A surveillance was performed to cover to some areas and eighty three blood samples (n=80, cows,n=3,bulls) were randomly collected from some dairy farms in Assalaia, Kenana and Rabak .

Serum samples were obtained and examined by Rose Bengal Plate Test (RBPT) to detect antibodies of brucella.

Six samples (7.22%) only were reported to be positive, five cases in Kenana (83.33%) and one case (16.67%)in Rabak .

This study indicated that brucellosis could be one of the health and production problems in some dairy farms in White Nile State and probably is one of the magor zoonotic diseases.