Abstract
A cross-sectional study was conducted in Wukari, Taraba state, Nigeria, to determine the prevalence of Brucella antibodies and the risk factors associated with brucellosis in indigenous breeds of goats. A total of 386 goats were sampled from three political wards: Puje, Avyi, and Hospital: harvested sera samples were subjected to Rose Bengal Plate Test (RBPT). GraphPad Prism version 7.03 for Windows (GraphPad Software, La Jolla California, USA) was used to analyse the association between seroprevalence of brucellosis and age, sex, breed, location, and management system by using Chi square and Fisher's exact test as appropriate. Brucellosis was detected in all three wards: Puje; 15%, Avyi; 6.6%, and Hospital; 7.6%. A prevalence rate of 2.8%, 8%, 18.7%, and 1% was recorded for <20-month, 22-35-month, 36-45-month, and ≥46-55-month age categories, respectively (P < 0.05). Only 9.5% was observed for male animals while 9.8% was observed for female animals with no statistical difference between the males and females. Breed-specific seroprevalence yielded 7.4%, 5.4% 12%, 12.8%, and 11.6%, for Cross, West Africa Dwarf, Red Sokoto, Kano Brown, and Sahel breeds of goat, respectively. There is an evidence of brucellosis (9.6%) in Wukari L.G.A, Taraba State, and age is a risk factor for the disease in the study area. There is a need to enlighten the public on the zoonotic potentials and economic impacts of brucellosis.
Highlights
Brucellosis is recognised as one of the neglected tropical zoonotic diseases with a serious worldwide public health importance caused by members of the genus Brucella [1,2,3]
Brucellosis is endemic in ruminants in Nigeria with devastating economic and public health impacts ranging from retarded calving and decreased calving rate, culling due to infertility, decreased milk yield, abortions, still births, birth of weakly animals, and loss of man hours to cost of treatment [7]
This study is the first investigation of brucellosis in Wukari where most of the dwellers keep goats as a livestock at Journal of Pathogens home increasing their likelihood of exposure to Brucella melitensis, the most pathogenic Brucella species that is known to affect humans [3]
Summary
Brucellosis is recognised as one of the neglected tropical zoonotic diseases with a serious worldwide public health importance caused by members of the genus Brucella [1,2,3]. There are a total of 11 species [4] with Brucella melitensis, B. suis, and B. abortus in goats, pigs, and cattle, respectively, been the most important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide [5]. Brucellosis is endemic in ruminants in Nigeria with devastating economic and public health impacts ranging from retarded calving and decreased calving rate, culling due to infertility, decreased milk yield, abortions, still births, birth of weakly animals, and loss of man hours (in humans) to cost of treatment [7]. This study is the first investigation of brucellosis in Wukari where most of the dwellers keep goats as a livestock at Journal of Pathogens home increasing their likelihood of exposure to Brucella melitensis, the most pathogenic Brucella species that is known to affect humans [3]
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