Ocorrência de anticorpos para brucella sp. em soros de matrizes suínas de granjas que abastecem o mercado consumidor de Goiânia, estado de Goiás, Brasil

Resumo

The present experiment was carried to verify the occurrence of brucelosis antibodies in pig farms that supply Goiânia-GO consumer market. In this context, 40 swine farms in 22 cities, and in 37 of them the animals were maintained confined and in three were raised in outdoor system; the number of sows per farm varied from four to 750 in a the total of 4279 sows. 829 blood samples were collected from craneal cava vein and examined using Card Test for Brucella sp. Only one animal, in one farm (2,5 %) the serum collected was positive for brucelosis in 40 farms. Based in these results, brucelosis was not considered an important sanitary problem in the swine herds studied.

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Suínos, Brucelose, Aglutininas, Zoonose, Pigs, Swine, Brucelosis, Zoonosis

Citação

MATOS, Moema Pacheco Chediak; SOBESTIANSKY, Jurij; PÔRTO, Regiani Nascimento Gagno; MEIRINHOS, Maria Lúcia Gambarini. Ocorrência de anticorpos para brucella sp. em soros de matrizes suínas de granjas que abastecem o mercado consumidor de Goiânia, estado de Goiás, Brasil. Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 5, n. 2, p.105-108, abr./jun. 2004. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/321/289>.