DOI: 10.36347/sjavs.2018.v05i05.002

Pages: 270-276

Abstract: The cross sectional study of small ruminant brucellosis was conducted at 8 selected PAs of Dire Dawa Administrative council from November 2013 to April 2014 to determine the sero-prevelence of small ruminant brucellosis. A total of 424 serum sample are taken; 159 from sheep and 265 from goats and tested for presence of Brucella antibodies against Brucellosis. The sera were first screened for Brucella antibodies using RBPT and positive sera were subjected to the CFT. In this study the overall rate prevalence 2.6% was recorded in small ruminant: 3.02% and 1.9% in goat and in sheep respectively. There was no statically significant difference observed in the prevalence of the disease among different age group, and between sex and species (p>0.05).The prevalence range from o-4.9% were observed in different PAs. Most of the respondent 66.7 % have no awareness about the Zoonotic importance of the disease. 72.2% of flock owners drinks raw milk and 96.3% flock owner handle animals retained fetal membrane with bare hand .In conclusion small ruminant brucellosis were found to be spread in the study area, and the management practice and tradition of using animal’s products exposes the society to Brucella infection.