Prevalencia de brucelosis bovina en el cantón Las Lajas, de la provincia de El Oro, determinado por dos métodos de diagnóstico ELISA competitivo y Rosa de Bengala.

Abstract

Worldwide Brucellosis is one of the infectious diseases that causes large economic losses by decreasing the production of meat and milk, in addition can be transmitted to humans. It is produced by bacteria of the genus Brucella, and transmitted when a healthy animal comes into contact with animals that carry the disease. In bovines, the species that produces the greatest affectations is B. abortus. The present work was carried out in the less rainy season of 2017, at Finca El Limón, belonging to the La Victoria parish, Las Lajas canton, El Oro province, with the objective of determining the prevalence of bovine brucellosis, for which were sampled females of reproductive age of a total of 300 head of cattle that has the production system. The race, age, sex of the animals were considered and the variables presence or absence of abortions and infertility were evaluated. A completely directed design was used, according to the results obtained from the evaluated animals, 100% of the sample considered was negative to Brucellosis, even though three of them had previously presented abortions, that is to say the results show that the The prevalence of bovine brucellosis is 0% in the El Limón farm, which indicates that, up to now, it is not a health or food problem.