Seroprevalence of ovine brucellosis by modified Rose Bengal test and ELISA in Southern Punjab, Pakistan
Zahid Iqbal, Huma Jamil*, Zafar Iqbal Qureshi,
Muhammad Saqib, Laeeq Akbar Lodhi, Muhammad Salman Waqas and
Muhammad Safdar
Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Agriculture,
Faisalabad38040, Pakistan *Corresponding author: drhjamil@uaf.edu.pk
Abstract
Pertaining to reported high prevalence of
brucellosis in Pakistan,
district Layyah on account of having thick sheep population was selected for
this study.A total of 384 sheep blood
samples were collected randomly from different selected private herds in the
district, and tested through Modified
Rose Bengal (mRB) test and Indirect Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (iELISA)
for the serological analysis against the Brucella antibodies. Positive
samples from these two tests were further subjected to Competitive Enzyme Linked
Immunosorbent Assay (cELISA). The individual based seroprevalence of brucellosis
in sheep was found to be 7.0% by mRB. Herd based prevalence was 42.5%. The
highest (P<0.05) seroprevalence (16.8%) was observed in Tehsil Layyah as
compared to Tehsils Karor (2.3%) and Choubara (4.5%).
Non-significant differences were recorded
between breeds, age and sex groups and also for the animals with or without
history of abortion. In case of indirect and competitive ELISA, no sheep serum
sample was found to be positive.