Open AccessQ-Fever Studies on the Dairy Cattle of Puerto Rico
Author(s) -
Gilberto Rosado-Carbó,
Carlos N. Berrocal,
José D. Rivera-Anaya
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the journal of agriculture of the university of puerto rico/the journal of agriculture of the university of puerto rico
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2308-1759
pISSN - 0041-994X
DOI - 10.46429/jaupr.v49i2.13021
Subject(s) - herd , dairy cattle , zoology , puerto rican , agglutination (biology) , incidence (geometry) , veterinary medicine , biology , antibody , geography , immunology , medicine , mathematics , geometry , sociology , anthropology
The presence of Q-fever antibodies was determined in 278 of the 561 milk samples from an equal number of Puerto Rican dairy herds tested by the capillary-tube agglutination technique. The incidence of positive agglutinations was found to be 49.55 percent. Over 50 percent of the dairies of Hatillo and Arecibo, the two with the largest numbers of dairy herds in Puerto Rico, showed positive agglutinations.