DAIRY MAIL | SEPTEMBER 2025
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Webinar of the World Association for Buiatrics | Thursday | 25 September 2025
The World Association for Buiatrics (WAB) is an independent international association and legal entity. Its objectives are to organise meetings on diseases and production of ...
Legal Aspects of Brucellosis Control
Legal Aspects of Brucellosis Control Introduction The main purpose of the Animal Diseases Act, No. 35 of 1984 (“the Act”) is to control important …
Brucellosis – Challenges in communal cattle
Communal cattle are reared in a farming system where multiple owners use common pastures and watering points. This is effectively a homogenous cattle herd with …
Diagnosis of Bovine Brucellosis
Brucellosis the disease Brucellosis is a bacterial disease of cattle caused by Brucella abortus, which may cause abortions. The disease is most commonly spread between …
Brucellosis in other species
Brucella abortus mainly causes disease in cattle. However, there are also other species of Brucella bacteria that primarily cause disease in domestic animals other than …
Cause of disease – Brucella abortus pathogen characteristics
Brucella abortus belongs to the family Brucellaceae along with ten other recognised Brucella species. It is the species of Brucella most commonly isolated in South …
Diagnosis of Human Brucellosis
Diagnosis of human brucellosis Dr J Rossouw and A/Prof John Frean Special Bacterial Pathogens Reference Laboratory Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases National Institute …
THE CONSEQUENCES OF BOVINE BRUCELLOSIS FOR MY BEEF HERD
Written by Dr Santjie Pieterse Brucellosis in a beef herd may be compared to a slow spreading cancer eroding your herd from internally. One may …