Author(s)

Marcelo Ibarra^1*, Martin Campos¹, Christian Ibarra², Urgilés Gladys³, Danny Huera⁴, Milena Gutiérrez⁵, Andrea Chamorro⁶, Luis Núñez⁷

¹Facultad de Industrias Agropecuarias y Ciencias Ambientales. Carrera Agropecuaria. Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi (UPEC). Antisana S/N y Av Universitaria, Tulcán Ecuador. Doctorando de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina.
²Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi (UPEC). Antisana S/N y Av Universitaria, Tulcán, Ecuador.
³Facultad de Industrias Agropecuarias y Ciencias Ambientales, Carrera Agropecuaria, Tulcán, Ecuador.
⁴Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi, Maestrante, Centro de Postgrado, Tulcán, Ecuador.
⁵Facultad de Comercio Internacional, Administración y Economía Empresarial, Carrera de Comercio Exterior, Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi, Tulcán, Ecuador.
⁶Facultad de Industrias Agropecuarias y Ciencias Ambientales, Carrera de Enfermería, Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi, Carchi, Ecuador.
⁷Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Carrera de Medicina Veterinaria, One Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador.

Brucellosis is an infectious disease of worldwide distribution, which has a great economic impact due to the productive and reproductive losses that it causes, in addition to the serious public health problem. The aim of this study is to estimate the economic losses, through financial analysis, caused by bovine brucellosis in the province of Carchi, over a one-year period. A random sampling was used to determine the prevalence in the study area, where 2976 animals were considered, and the Rose Bengal (RB) test was used as a screening test and the Fluorescence Polarized Assay (FPA) as a confirmatory test, obtaining a prevalence of 8.2% (244/2976). In addition, parameters associated to the losses caused by brucellosis in cattle were determined by literature review. To estimate costs, field information was collected through a survey of a total of 100 randomly selected farmers. The loss estimated due to calves lost as a result of abortions and neonatal death was USD. 79170.00. The loss due to death of 4 cows as a result of metritis was estimated at USD. 5000.00. The cost of examination and treatment of aborted cows was USD. 20100.00. The losses due to reduction in milk production from aborted and non-aborted seropositive cows were estimated at USD. 158114.21. The financial losses due to brucellosis in province of Carchi were estimated at USD. 262384.21.

Bovine Brucellosis, Economic Losses, Carchi-Ecuador

Ibarra, M. , Campos, M. , Ibarra, C. , Gladys, U. , Huera, D. , Gutiérrez, M. , Chamorro, A. and Núñez, L. (2023) Financial Losses Associated with Bovine Brucellosis (Brucella abortus) in Carchi-Ecuador. Open Journal of Animal Sciences, 13, 205-216. doi: 10.4236/ojas.2023.132015.