Ineficacia de los rumiantes silvestres como reservorios de Brucella en los ambientes naturales de las sierras béticas
- L. León Vizcaíno
- F. Garrido Abellán
- M. González Candela
- L. Pérez Béjar
- M. Cubero Pablo
- A. Perales Flores
- I. Pacheco
- P. Martín Atance
Publisher: Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca ; Junta de Andalucía
ISBN: 978-84-8474-246-3
Year of publication: 2008
Pages: 342-346
Congress: Sociedad Española de Ovinotecnia y Caprinotecnia (SEOC). Jornadas (33. 2008. Almería)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
Nevertheless to share habitats with domestic animals, wild ruminantsseroprevalences of brucellosis were small in roe deer at Cádiz (5,2%) and reddeer from Jaén, Sierra Morena or null as in red deer from Sevilla as Spanishibex from Sierra de las Nieves (Málaga) (1990-91 serology); and very small(0,16%) in Spanish ibex from Granada (1,4%) and Almería (2,1%) and null fromMálaga and Jaén (except Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas-SCSV) along1992-1998 years. The sanitary surveillance of wild ruminant populations fromSCSV after 1977 made possible to study at the beginning a B. melitensisoutbreak; which was initiate (1981) by introduction of sheep flocks infected.Brucellosis infection quickly affected (high seroprevalences, abortions andanother clinical forms) to Spanish ibex, wild sheep, red deer and fallow deerpopulations. However, after a severe sanitary control to flocks, the infection ofwild animals gradually decreased still absolute disappearance. Both observationstudies suggest the inefficient of these wild ruminants as natural reserve ofbrucella.