Brucellosis seroprevalence in Bali cattle with reproductive failure in South Sulawesi and Brucella abortus biovar 1 genotypes in the Eastern Indonesian archipelago

BMC Veterinary Research

Henk L Smits¹  Theresia H Abdoel¹  Pauline Scheelbeek¹  Ente Rood¹  Mochammad Hatta²  Hanah Muflihanah³ 

[1] KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute/Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT), Meibergdreef 39, 1105AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Molecular Biology and Immunology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia;Veterinary Diseases Investigation Centre, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

关键词: Cattle;    Productivity;    Livestock;    Indonesia;    Pen-side diagnostics;    Prevalence;    Fertility;    Reproduction;    Genotyping;    Abortion;    Brucellosis;   

Others  :  1119405
DOI  :  10.1186/1746-6148-9-233

 received in 2013-04-02, accepted in 2013-11-13,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Brucellosis is a major cause of infertility and reproductive failure in livestock. While cattle in the Eastern Indonesian archipelago suffers from reproductive problems information on bovine brucellosis in the region is fragmentary. The control of brucellosis requires a major and prolonged effort and confirmation of the infection by isolation with detailed knowledge of the spread of the infection is essential when planning a control program.

Results

Serological investigation of Brucella infection in beef cattle tended under extensive farming conditions revealed a high seroprevalence (19.3%; 95% CI, 17–22) in the compliment fixation tests. The results of a rapid and simple field test correlated well with the Rose Bengal test (kappa, 0.917) and indicated an acceptable sensitivity (87.5%) and specificity (98.1%) compared with the complement fixation test. Reproductive failure was reported for 39.0% of the cows with a loss of calves due to abortion or early death amounting to 19.3%. Past reproductive failure did not, however, correlate with seropositivity in the complement fixation test (RP = 1.21; P = 0.847). B. abortus biovar 1 was freshly isolated from the hygromas of two cows and together with thirty banked isolates collected since 1990 from different parts of Sulawesi and Timor eight related genotypes could be distinguished with one genotype being identical to that of an isolate (BfR91) from Switzerland. The Indonesian genotypes formed together with BfR91 and one African and one North American isolate a distinct branch on the B. abortus biovar 1 dendogram.

Conclusions

Bovine brucellosis appears to be widespread in the Eastern Indonesian archipelago and calls for urgent intervention. The fresh isolation of the pathogen together with the observed high seroprevalence demonstrates the presence and frequent exposure of cattle in the area to the pathogen. The application of a rapid and simple field test for brucellosis could be very useful for the quick screening of cattle at the pen side.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Muflihanah et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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