Asociación Latinoamericana de Producción Animal (ALPA)
Abstract
Brucellosis is a contagious infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella that affects human health by direct contagion with placentas, fetuses or uterine secretions or by consuming contaminated milk and its derivatives. Brucellosis affects animal health, generally causing abortions in most domestic species, and also generating a negative economic impact on the livestock industry due to losses caused by the decrease in meat and milk production and a decrease in the resale value of infected animals. The transmission of the disease in any of the affected species is done during the delivery or abortion of infected animals. Abortion generally occurs at more than half the gestation and the number of brucelas eliminated in this act is the main source of infection. In Argentina, for example, there is a national program for the control and eradication of bovine brucellosis that uses BPA as a diagnostic technique, as a sieve, Wright's tube slow motion and 2 mercaptoethanol (2ME) as confirmatory and complement fixation. as defining are those established for the control and eradication of bovine brucellosis
