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 1
Serodiagnostic test results for brucellosis in animals, Egypt, 2007*
| Serum source | Location | No. tested | Serologic test, no. positive (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAPA | RBP | SA | Rivanol | |||
| Cattle |
Alexandria | 333 | 17 (5.11) | 15 (4.5) | 13 (3.9) | 13 (3.9) |
| Behera | 374 | 11 (2.94) | 11 (2.94) | 10 (2.67) | 9 (2.41) | |
| Monofia | 280 | 20 (7.14) | 18 (6.43) | 17 (6.07) | 15 (5.36) | |
| Qalioubia | 221 | 14 (6.33) | 12 (5.43) | 12 (5.43) | 11 (4.98) | |
| Giza | 346 | 15 (4.34) | 15 (4.34) | 14 (4.05) | 14 (4.05) | |
| Benisuef | 309 | 24 (7.77) | 22 (7.12) | 21 (6.8) | 21 (6.8) | |
| Assiut | 103 | 6 (5.83) | 5 (4.85) | 6 (5.83) | 5 (4.85) | |
| Total |
1,966 |
107 (5.44) |
98 (4.98) |
93 (4.73) |
88 (4.48) |
|
| Buffaloes |
Alexandria | 137 | 6 (4.38) | 6 (4.38) | 6 (4.38) | 6 (4.38) |
| Behera | 397 | 7 (1.76) | 5 (1.26) | 5 (1.26) | 5 (1.26) | |
| Monofia | 210 | 10 (4.76) | 8 (3.81) | 6 (2.86) | 7 (3.33) | |
| Qalioubia | 131 | 7 (5.34) | 6 (4.58) | 7 (5.34) | 6 (4.58) | |
| Giza | 198 | 8 (4.04) | 8 (4.04) | 8 (4.04) | 7 (3.54) | |
| Benisuef | 231 | 16 (6.93) | 14 (6.06) | 14 (6.06) | 14 (6.06) | |
| Assiut | 33 | 1 (3.03) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total |
1,337 |
55 (4.11) |
47 (3.52) |
46 (3.44) |
45 (3.37) |
|
| Sheep |
Behera | 210 | 11 (5.24) | 10 (4.76) | 10 (4.76) | 10 (4.76) |
| Monofia | 81 | 2 (2.47) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Qalioubia | 133 | 6 (4.51) | 6 (4.51) | 6 (4.51) | 6 (4.51) | |
| Giza | 172 | 10 (5.81) | 9 (5.23) | 9 (5.23) | 9 (5.23) | |
| Benisuef | 217 | 15 (6.91) | 14 (6.45) | 14 (6.45) | 14 (6.45) | |
| Total |
813 |
44 (5.41) |
39 (4.8) |
39 (4.8) |
39 (4.8) |
|
| Goats | Behera | 55 | 1 (1.82) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Monofia | 63 | 4 (6.35) | 2 (3.17) | 2 (3.17) | 2 (3.17) | |
| Qalioubia | 103 | 3 (2.91) | 2 (1.94) | 2 (1.94) | 2 (1.94) | |
| Giza | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Benisuef | 87 | 5 (5.75) | 4 (4.6) | 4 (4.60) | 4(4.6) | |
| Total | 366 | 13 (3.55) | 8 (2.19) | 8 (2.19) | 8(2.19) | |
*BAPA, buffer acidified plate antigen; RBP, Rose Bengal plate; SA, standard tube agglutination.
