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Table 2 Prevalence of brucellosis in different animal species

From: Comparative evaluation of RBPT, I-ELISA, and CFT for the diagnosis of brucellosis and PCR detection of Brucella species from Ethiopian sheep, goats, and cattle sera

Animal species

No tested

RBPT

positive

I-ELISA positive

CFT

positive

PCR

positive

Sheep

552

25 (4.5%)

18 (3.3%)

1 (0.2%)

17/18 (94.4%)

Goats

1345

114 (8.5%)

105 (7.8%)

11 (0.8%)

18/18 (100%)

Cattle

420

50 (11.9%)

68 (16.2%)

36 (8.6%)

18/18 (100%)

Total

2317

189 (8.2%)

191 (8.2%)

48 (2.1%)

53/54 (98.2%)