Veterinary Archives, Vol. 94 No. 5, 2024.
Short communication, Note
https://doi.org/10.24099/vet.arhiv.2558
The updated prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in Central and Eastern European dairy herds – a short communication
Attila Dobos
; Large Animal Clinical Laboratory, University of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Brno, Czechia; Ceva-Phylaxia Veterinary Biologicals Co. Ltd., Budapest, Hungary
*
Mislav Kovacic
; Department of Biology, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Goran Jakovljevic
; Greenlab pet vet, Beograd, Serbia
Marko Samardzija
; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
This study aimed to extend our previous research, to collect more bulk tank milk samples from the Central and Eastern European region. Samples were collected between January 2020 and August 2023 from 126 dairy herds from four Central and Eastern European countries (Hungary, n=87; Czechia, n=24; Slovakia, n=10 and Croatia n=5). A positive correlation was found between herd size and the percentage of C. burnetii positive results (with PCR and/or ELISA tests) from bulk tank milk in dairy herds. On the basis of our results we can conclude that the growing number of farms managing a high number of dairy cows, with high stocking density, correlates with the increasing prevalence of C. burnetii in the region.
Keywords
dairy cattle; Central and Eastern Europe; Q fever; bulk tank milk
Hrčak ID:
320616
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2024.
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