Fig 1.
Unilateral hygroma on the knee joint (right carpal joint).
This condition may be a consequence of bovine brucellosis. Brucella abortus was isolated from the supra-mammary lymph node of this cow.
Table 1.
Seroprevalence of bovine brucellosis in beef herds at the district level in southern Albania.
Fig 2.
Histogram showing the distribution of FPA antibody titer to Brucella abortus in 175 positive animals.
116 (66.3%) animals showed a titer above 100 ΔmP. Also, the histogram shows a skewed distribution to the left-hand side, which indicates active infection, and these animals are likely to shed the bacteria into milk and other body fluids.
Table 2.
Serological patterns found within the tested samples.
Table 3.
Results of RBT, FPA, and ELISA tests in the 38 beef herds according to the geographical distribution of sampling showing positive results in 21 herds.
Table 4.
Kappa statistic between the RBT, ELISA, and FPA tests used in serodiagnosis of brucellosis in beef cattle herds in Albania.
Table 5.
Microbiological and serological results obtained from samples from the 16 slaughtered animals.