Soroprevalência de brucelose canina na cidade de Alfenas, MG. dados preliminares / Serum prevalence of canine brucellosis in Alfenas city MG, Brazil, Preliminary data

One hundred and two blood serum samples from dogs referred to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Alfenas University, were submitted to the agarose immune diffusion and to the fast serum-agglutination tests addressed to find antibodies anti-Brucella canis and B. abortus, respectively. Five samples (4.9 percent) were positives for B.canis and none for B. abortus. This prevalence is considered by some as an alert for an epidemiologic and public healthy problems, considering the serious zoonotic aspect of canine brucellosis