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Sero-epidemiology of Brucellosis in Talesh

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease caused by species of genus Brucella. Infection is transmitted to humans from contaminated animals by direct or indirect contact. Brucellos causes heavy economic losses and healthy problems. The goal of this research has been to determine serprevalence of disease in Talesh. Data were collected by a questionnaire from 202 patients randomly in laboratory of Shahid Nourani hospital, and then blood samples were taken. Sera were separated. Rose Bengal antigen, Brucella abortus antigen and 2ME buffer were bought from (Pasteur Institute of Iran). Rose Bengal test were performed on sera of all of them. In positive cases, Wright tube and 2ME Wright test were performed for determination of the antibody titer (Wright and 2ME £1/80 were positive). The results showed that 70 (34.65%) of cases were male, and 132(65.34%) were female. Wright test in 5.44%, and 2ME test in 4.55% of cases were positive. Results show that seroprevalence of Brucellosis in Talesh was 4.95%, and incidence rate was 0.49%. Because of high prevalence of disease, people must use pasteurized dairies.