brucellosis

ILRI News on brucellosis

04 May 2021

New study sheds light on the Brucella species circulating in Kenya

Research has revealed that B. abortus and B. melitensis are the dominant Brucella species circulating in several livestock hosts and humans in Kenya. Both B. abortus and B. melitensis were detected in cattle, sheep, goats, camels and humans. Brucellosis is a disease caused by a group of bacteria...

Geoffrey NjengaCommunications Officer

ILRI News

26 Nov 2020

Tackling co-infections with Rift Valley fever, brucellosis and Q fever in Kenya using One Health

Livestock market in Wajir County, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Riccardo Gangale). A second technical meeting of a project that is working to reduce the burden of major zoonoses among pastoralists in Kenya was held 1–4 November 2020 in Naivasha-Kenya. The project, which is known as ‘Co-infection with...

Geoffrey NjengaCommunications Officer

ILRI News

01 Sep 2020

Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do

Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Felix Clay/Duckrabbit). In a new book chapter (Ch. 15, Technologies for agricultural transformation: Animal health ), Delia Grace , a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert at the...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

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Publications on brucellosis

Journal Article

Published2021

Using a One Health case-based investigation for improved control of brucellosis in Isiolo, Kenya

Journal Article

Published2021

Participatory and transdisciplinary studies of Brucella infection in humans and animals in Yunnan Province, China—Lessons learned

Journal Article

Published2021

Comparative evaluation of the immunodominant proteins of Brucella abortus for the diagnosis of cattle brucellosis

Journal Article

Published2021

Molecular epidemiology of Brucella species in mixed livestock-human ecosystems in Kenya

Journal Article

Published2021

Seroprevalence and risk factors of Brucella infection in dairy animals in urban and rural areas of Bihar and Assam, India

Report

Published2021

Rapport de l’atelier de formation sur les méthodes de contrôle de la brucellose au Burundi

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ILRI Projects on brucellosis

Sep 2019Aug 2022

Co-infection with Rift Valley fever virus, Brucella spp. and Coxiella burnetii in humans and animals in Kenya: Disease burden and ecological factors

Rift Valley fever, brucellosis and Q fever cause serious illnesses in humans and are associated with extensive socio-economic losses in livestock. These diseases are prevalent in pastoral areas of Kenya and are among the country’s top 10 priority zoonoses. In people, the diseases cause intermittent...