brucellosis

ILRI News on brucellosis

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 MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

ILRI clippings

15 Jun 2020

Scientists stress need, amid COVID-19, to maintain focus on everyday zoonotic diseases of the world’s poor

James Akoko, ILRI Animal Health Assistant with the People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project, making blood smears (photo credit: BMGF/Lee Klejtnot). Most diseases that transmit from animals to humans (zoonoses) are not of the headline-grabbing, world-stopping variety write Eric Fèvre and...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

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Publications on brucellosis

Journal Article

Published2021

Hospital-based evidence on cost-effectiveness of brucellosis diagnostic tests and treatment in Kenyan hospitals

Journal Article

Published2020

Comparative evaluation offluorescence polarization assay and competitive ELISA for the diagnosis of bovine brucellosisvis-a-vis sero-monitoring

Journal Article

Published2020

Perceptions and preparedness of veterinarians to combat brucellosis through Brucellosis Control Programme in India

Journal Article

Published2020

Selected endemic zoonoses in pigs presenting for slaughter in Kampala, Uganda

Journal Article

Published2020

Detection of Brucella spp. in raw milk from various livestock species raised under pastoral production systems in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties, northern Kenya

Journal Article

Published2020

Risk factors for Brucella spp. and Coxiella burnetii infection among small ruminants in Eastern India

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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...