Seroprevalence and risk factors associated with bovine brucellosis in the Potohar Plateau, Pakistan

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• 作者：Shahzad Ali ; Shamim Akhter ; Heinrich Neubauer ; Falk Melzer…
• 关键词：Bovine brucellosis ; Serology ; Bacteriology ; qRT ; PCR ; Risk factors ; Pakistan
• 刊名：BMC Research Notes
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1306KB
• 刊物主题：Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general; Life Sciences, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1756-0500
• 卷排序：10

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BackgroundThe seroprevalence and risk factors of bovine brucellosis were studied at animal and herd level using a combination of culture, serological and molecular methods. The study was conducted in 253 randomly selected cattle herds of the Potohar plateau, Pakistan from which a total of 2709 serum (1462 cattle and 1247 buffaloes) and 2330 milk (1168 cattle and 1162 buffaloes) samples were collected. Data on risk factors associated with seroprevalence of brucellosis were collected through interviews using questionnaires. Univariable and multivariable random effects logistic regression models were used for identifying important risk factors at animal and herd levels.