Designated as WOAH Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis at 77th WOAH general session in May, 2009.
Dr. Jin-Ju Lee
[Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency]
Bacterial Disease Division
[Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency]
Investigation of occurrence factors on brucellosis-outbreak farm in Korea(2013-05-16) | |||||
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Part | 동식물위생연구부 | Charger | Moon Her | date | 2013-05-16 |
Ji Yeon Kim, Shin Seok Kang, Moon Her, Kichan Lee, So Ra Sung, Jung Hui Gu, Sung Il Kang, Hyang Keun Lee, Yu Jin Kim, Dong Gil Kim, Suk Chan Jung Korean Journal of Veterinary Service 2012, 35(4) 263-268 Abstract
From the end of July 2012, several cases of abortion have been happened at the Korean indigenous cattle farm with 124 heads in Chungbuk province, Korea. Serological tests such as Rose-bengal test (RBT) and standard tube agglutination test (STAT) have been performed according to the standard official protocols of bovine brucellosis and 41 cattle turned out to be brucellosis-positive simultaneously. To find out the main factors of brucellosis outbreaks and spreads, additional serological, etiological and molecular investigation were applied. Totally, 11 B. abortus were isolated from 10 cattle`s specimens including lymph-nodes and/or testis, and drinking water in cowhouse. In genotyping by multi-locus VNTR assay (MLVA) using 17 loci markers, the present B. abortus isolates were shown all the same pattern, D1 genotype, which has been reported in Gyeonggi and Gangwon province, Korea. These results suggest that the input of brucellosis might come from neighboring farms directly or indirectly, even if by unknown factor and expansion within farm would accelerate by materials related with aborting cows. |
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