Prevalence of Brucellosis among Dairy Farm Workers in Kassala State

Abstract

Abstract

Brucellosis was known as a serious disease infects animals and transmitted

to man leading to health and economic problems.

This study was performed to determine the prevalence of brucellosis among

dairy farm workers in the agriculture area of Kassala were collected from

farm workers due to their continuous contact with farm animals (cattle).State

where most of dairy farms were located. Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease;

therefore samples

Sera were collected from 50 dairy farm workers, 36 from whom who have

no contact with animals, 10 from febrile patients attended at Tropical

medicine hospital and 10 known positive for brucella.

All the farm workers were healthy and neither vaccinated against brucellosis

nor received anti-brucella treatment; some of them consumed raw milk. All

were male and their ages were ranged between 15 and 70 years.

All sera were tested using both Rose Bengal test (RBT) and Tube

agglutination test (TAT). The percentage of the positive samples was 4%, all

sera from those who have no contact with animals and those from febrile

patients were negative, while all sera that known to be positive for brucella

were positive.