Abstract Caprine brucellosis is an endemic disease and is present in many countries. It causes heavy losses in goats and is transmissible to man. Assessment of incidence of the disease was seen in pure-bred goats (Jamunapari, Barbari and Beetal) of breeding age belonging to 241 farmers of 143 villages of seven districts of U.P. and Punjab, India. Rapid, easy, and ®eld-based qualitative dot-Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay was used, for the ®rst time in India, in the screening of ®eld goats. Reactors in dotElisa were further tested with standard tube agglutination test (SAT). Incidence of brucellosis in farmers' goat¯ocks was 0.8%. Incidence in organized state government goat farms was 4.9%. Incidence in goats slaughtered in local goat abattoir in Agra (U.P.) was 7.1%. The overall incidence of brucellosis in goats in areas surveyed was 4.0%. Dot-Elisa was found to be rapid, handy and suitable screening test in the ®eld for the diagnosis of brucellosis in goats.
