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ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF BRUCELLA FROM RAW MILK AND SOFT CHEESE IN BAGHDAD RETAILS MARKETS | ||
| IRAQ JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE | ||
| Article 1, Volume 14, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 0-0 | ||
| Authors | ||
| F. H. Dhaher; R. M. Ali; D. H. A. Mohammed; A. S. Ahmed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was subjected to isolate and identify Brucella from raw milk and soft cheese samples collected from Baghdad markets. Six hundred and ninty nine samples, (446 cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat raw milk and 250 samples of soft cheese) manufactured from unpasteurzed raw milk of cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat were used in this study. All samples were tested with milk ring test (MRT) and bacterial isolation. The results of MRT showed that the percent of positive samples for cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat were 42.8 , 10.3 , 7.3 and 61.5% respectively. A 19 brucella strain were isolated, 11 of Brucella abortus from raw milk and soft cheese made from cattle and buffalo, with 8 of Brucella meliteneses from raw milk and soft cheese of sheep and goat. It had been found that the 1 st and 3rd serotypes of Br. abortus and Br. melitenses respectivlly were the predominate types | ||
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