Occurance of canine brucellosis in a large kennel in Chonnam area

Moon, Jin-san; Oh, Gi-suk; Park, In-cheol; Kang, Byong-kyu; Lee, Chai-yong; Jung, Suk-chan; Park, Yong-ho; Shin, Ssang-jae

Korean Journal of Veterinary Research 1999;39(6):1099-1105.

Jin-san Moon¹, Gi-suk Oh², In-cheol Park², Byong-kyu Kang², Chai-yong Lee², Suk-chan Jung¹, Yong-ho Park³, Ssang-jae Shin⁴

¹National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, MAF
²College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonnam National University
³College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University
⁴College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University

전남지방의 소형견 번식장으로부터 발생한 canine brucellosis

문진산¹, 오기석², 박인철², 강병규², 이채용², 정석찬¹, 박용호³, 신쌍재⁴

¹국립수의과학검역원
²전남대학교 수의과대학
³서울대학교 수의과대학
⁴코넬대학교 수의과대학

Abstract

Reproductive failures, such as abortions were occured among dogs in a large kennel in Chonnam area April in 1994. After an initial positive result by the 2 mercaptoethal rapid slide agglutination test(2ME-RSAT) to Brucella canis on five sera, additional specimens from all dogs in the population were tested. The blood cultures and 3 following serological tests (2ME-RSAT, TAT, AGID) performed on all samples on the basis of surveys, the following results were obtained. 1. Thirty three of 62 dogs were seropositive. 2. Twenty blood samples from 33 dogs were cultured, all of the isolates were identified as B canis. 3. Although there was not siginificant difference in sex, age and breed of the cause brucellosis dectected, abortions was occured late in gestation stage.

Key Words: abortion, canine brucellosis, Brucella canis