| brucella melitensis biotype 1 outbreak in goats in northern kwazulu-natal. | | 1996 | 8786610 |
| brucella melitensis biotype 1 outbreak in goats in northern kwazulu-natal. | brucella melitensis biotype 1 was confirmed in indigenous, outbred goats in three northern districts of the kwazulu-natal province following the diagnosis of human malta fever in the same area. six foci of infection were found during an extensive serological survey involving 6266 goats carried out in most of the districts of the kwazulu-natal province. the prevalence in the positive herds varied between 17% and 100%. the diagnosis was confirmed by culturing milk samples from serologically positi ... | 1996 | 8856768 |
| an overview of the eradication of brucella melitensis from kwazulu-natal. | brucella melitensis is a gram-negative bacterium whose primary hosts are goats and sheep. like the other brucelia spp., with the exception of brucella ovis, it is not particularly host specific as it is pathogenic for a variety of other mammal species including humans. in humans the disease caused by it is rated as one of the most important zoonoses. three outbreaks have been recorded in goats and sheep in south africa; the first outbreak occurred in sheep in 1965 in the mpumalanga and northern ... | 2002 | 12233997 |