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A serosurvey of Bovine Brucellosis in three cattle-rearing regions of Somaliland (Northern Somalia)
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female cattle to be analyzed. Rose Bengal Plate Test (RBPT) and indirect ELISA (I-ELISA) were used to screen all sera samples. The prevalence of brucellosis in the tested bovine sera were 5.5% (n=91), and 4.4% (n=74) by RBPT, and by I-ELISA respectively. There was a little difference regarding to sex of the prevalence between males and
females in the overall studied districts as it was 5.0% and 3.8% in males by RBPT and I-ELISA respectively, while it was 5.8% and 5.0% in females respectively. There were little differences in prevalences of brucellosis among the studied districts which was highest in Awdal (6.5%) whereas in Waqoyi Galbeed (5.1%) and in Togdheer (5.5%) by
RBPT, while it was in (5.1%), followed by Waqoyi Galbeed (4.1%), and Togdheer (4.1%) regions by (I-ELISA). There was no significant difference in the seroprevalence according to the age.