Estudio comparativo de las pruebas de Rosa de Bengala y Elisa competitivo para el diagnóstico de brucelosis en rebaños doble propósito del estado Lara, Venezuela

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that negatively affects milk production in Latin America. Infections with Brucella abortus bacteria observed in human populations are fundamentally caused by ingestion of non-pasteurized milk by-products. In Venezuela, most of the milk production is obtained from crossbred dual purpose herds, which are generally under defi cient sanitary conditions. A signifi cant amount of milk produced is used for production of non-pasteurized cheese for human consumption. In Venezuela, the offi cial screening test for brucellosis is Rose Bengal test (RBT), leaving competitive ELISA test (cELISA) to only defi nitively confi rm results obtained from