Seroprevalencia de Brucella canis en la población canina del centro de zoonosis de la ciudad de Villavicencio

Background: The Brucella canis has become a problem, such as zoonotic disease, which causes abortions usually 6-8 weeks of gestation, in the postconception of females, and in males causes inflammation of the scrotal sacs and infection in the testicles. Objective: To determine the prevalence of Brucella canis from the canine population that enters the center of zoonoses of the city of Villavicencio, META-Colombia. Materials and Methods: Male and female canines were used in reproductive age of the animals entering the center of the city of zoonoses of Villavicencio-Meta Colombia. Under simple random sampling completely random, studied 150 canines during 5 months divided into groups of 30 animals, which underwent a full diagnostic examination and blood sample and laboratory diagnostic AIDS for the technique of agglutination for Brucella canis. Results: We found a seroprevalence of 9.3% (14 dogs), 7 males and 7 females. Conclusions: With the seropositivity found by Brucella canis in dogs from the center of zoonoses, means a risk to public health of the institution and of the city of Villavicencio, by the great significance of stray dogs, which involves making a greater epidemiological research.

• Autores: Cardenas Garcia, Dario; Obando Bastidas, Jorge Alejandro; Moreno Cortes, Camilo; Mesa Varela, Liz Angie; Ortiz Gonzalez, Arwin Rene
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UCC
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/42028
• Acceso en línea: https://doi.org/10.21071/az.v66i256.2778; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/42028
• Palabra clave: Agglutination test; Brucella canis; Prevalence; Zoonoses
• Rights: closedAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb