Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection caused by the bacterial genus Brucella. Like all zoonoses, brucellosis can be transmitted from infected animals to humans. Brucellosis is also known as Mediterranean fever, Malta fever, gastric remittent fever, undulant fever, contagious abortion and Bang's disease. Animals that are most commonly infected include sheep, cattle, goats, pigs and dogs.
There are many sub-types of the Brucella genus, with B. abortus most common in cattle, B. melitensis and B. ovis most common in sheep and goats and B. suis most common in pigs (see table).
ANIMALS
Brucellosis is most commonly not a fatal disease, with the mortality rate low. However, the disease can do great damage to animals in terms of their
