Reproductive failures, such as abortions were occured among dogs in a large kennel in Chonnam area April in 1994. After an initial positive result by the 2 mercaptoethal rapid slide agglutination test(2ME-RSAT) to Brucella canis on five sera, additional specimens from all dogs in the population were tested. The blood cultures and 3 following serological tests (2ME-RSAT, TAT, AGID) performed on all samples on the basis of surveys, the following results were obtained.
1. Thirty three of 62 dogs were seropositive.
2. Twenty blood samples from 33 dogs were cultured, all of the isolates were identified as B canis .
3. Although there was not siginificant difference in sex, age and breed of the cause brucellosis dectected, abortions was occured late in gestation stage.
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