Brucellosis in wild swine: a serologic and bacteriologic survey in the southeastern United States and Hawaii
Zygmont, S.M.; Nettles, V.F.; Shotts, E.B.; Carmen, W.A.; Blackburn, B.O.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 181(11): 1285-1287
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488 PMID: 7174444 Document Number: 192915
Serum samples collected from feral swine from 20 populations in 11 southeastern states and Hawaii in 1979 and 1980 were tested by the card, tube, plate, buffered plate antigen, complement-fixation, and ethacridine tests. Twenty-one of 352 (6.0%) swine were considered positive, and these animals originated from seven populations in five states: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Cultural examinations for Brucella suis also were made from subsamples of the swine tested serologically. Brucella suis biotype 1 was isolated from lymph nodes or seminal vesicles from wild swine in two areas in Florida and one in Louisiana.