October 2017

Diversity and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella strains isolated from different sources in Burkina Faso

Epidemiologic and traceback evidence of Salmonella infection is not much in many developing countries including Burkina Faso. This study investigates the antimicrobial resistance and distribution of Salmonella serotypes isolated from diverse sources in Burkina Faso. 615 Salmonella serotypes isolated from beef meat, poultry carcasses, poultry, swine, cattle, hedgehog, fish, salad, channel and humans from 2009 to 2011...

Author(s): Kagambèga A., , , Bouda S. C., Bako E., Cissé H., Barro N. and Haukka K.,

October 2017

Milk ring, rose bengal tests and conventional PCR based detection of Brucella abortus infected dairy cattle in Bangladesh

The objective of this study was to detect dairy cattle infected with Brucella abortus from Jamalpur, Rangpur districts and Central Cattle Breeding and Dairy Farm (CCBDF), Savar, Dhaka in Bangladesh. Both milk and serum samples of 510 dairy cattle were initially screened by milk ring test (MRT) and Rose Bengal Test (RBT). Twelve samples positive in both MRT and RBT were further confirmed by conventional polymerase chain...

Author(s): M. A. S. Sarker, M. S. Rahman, M. M. Begum, M. B. Rahman, M. F. Rahman, H. Neubauer and A. K. M. Anisur Rahman