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 4
Brucellosis in animals, the Americas, 1994
| Bovine |
Ovine/caprine |
Porcine |
Ovine |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | (B. abortus) | (B. melitensis) | (B. suis) | (B. ovis) |
| Antigua/Barbuda | ? | - | - | - |
| Argentina | ++ | - | + | ++ |
| Belize | - | - | - | ND |
| Bolivia | ++ | + | + | ND |
| Brazil | ++ | - | + | - |
| Canada | - | - | - | + |
| Chile | ++ | - | - | + |
| Colombia | + | - | - | - |
| Cuba | ? | - | ++ | - |
| Dominican Republic | ++ | - | + | - |
| Ecuador | ++ | ND | ND | ND |
| El Salvador | ++ | ND | + | ND |
| Guatemala | + | - | + | - |
| Haiti | + | - | - | - |
| Honduras | ? | - | ++ | - |
| Jamaica | ?+ | - | - | - |
| Mexico | + | + | ND | - |
| Nicaragua | ++ | ND | ND | ND |
| Peru | ++ | ND | ND | ++ |
| Paraguay | + | ND | - | + |
| Uruguay | + | - | - | + |
| United States | + | - | (+) | + |
| Venezuela | ++ | - | ++ | ? |
- not present
+ low sporadic incidence
++ high incidence
? presence uncertain
ND no data
None of the four types of brucellosis is present in Barbados, Falkland Islands, Surinam, or St. Kitts/Nevis
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