In saudi arabia, it is very common to see a case of Brucella in camels and sheeps( in humans also). I encountered a case of Brucella in one of our camels which came positive for Brucella melitensis on two occasions, with a titre of 1/160, the shecamel was checked twice within a week and both came with same titre(1/160). The treatment of choice in saudi is giving Oxytetracycline LA on alternated days for 15 days and Streptomycin injection for 8 days on alternate days. This is a very painful procedure for animal, handler and vet. From third injection the animal becomes so violent that it is risky for the handlers and vet to approach the animal. But this treatment was going on since last twenty years. I doubted this and tried with Enrofloxacin+Streptomycin injection once daily for ten days. Blood was analysed after ten days of the last injection, the titre is 1/80. I hope i will succeed in this line of treatment. Bhai and Jahir can try this on camels in Qatar(you can call KUMARAN'S TREATMENT METHOD) and give me feed back on this.If you have time, Angela and Deepa can get some references on this.
Karaiyan.
Karayaan - Let me check on this and get back to you. I think most of the time we don't know how drugs work as long as they help with the symptoms at the clinical level we don't care I suppose as long as there is minimal side effects. I will look up some articles. GFK may know more about this.
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