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Table 3 Characterisation of Brucella isolates of tissue specimens collected from an aborted fetus

From: Use of serology and real time PCR to control an outbreak of bovine brucellosis at a dairy cattle farm in the Nile Delta region, Egypt

origin

Conventional methods

Brucella-PCR

Amos-PCR

Ladder-PCR

Liver

B. abortus

Positive

B. abortus

B. abortus vaccine strain

Spleen

B. abortus

Positive

B. abortus

B. abortus field strain

Abomasal contents

B. abortus

Positive

B. abortus

B. abortus field strain

Genital organ

B. abortus

Positive

B. abortus

B. abortus field strain