title: Brucellosis in free-living African buffalo (Syncerus caffer): a serological survey.
abstract: The rose bengal and complement fixation tests were successfully applied to buffalo (Syncerus caffer) sera. An overall occurrence of 23% positive reactors was obtained, but Brucella infection does not appear to act as an effective culling agent in buffalo. Any eradication programme must take free-living buffalo into account as a possible source of re-infection for cattle.
mesh_terms: D000372:Agglutination Tests; D000818:Animals; D002007:Brucellosis, Bovine / Q000276:immunology*; D002020:Buffaloes / Q000276:immunology*; D002417:Cattle; D003168:Complement Fixation Tests; D012395:Rose Bengal
chemical_list: D012395:Rose Bengal