[Brucellic mammitis in sows].
In a herd of pigs, 31% presented serological reactions positive or doubtful to brucellic infection; in 15% of the sows the mammary glands were swollen and purulent; the retromammary ganglions were enlarged and hemorrhagic. Bacteriological examination of the pus of mammary lesions showed the presence of Brucella suis, which confirmed the diagnosis of brucellic mammitis in the sows. The purulent discharge of the mammary lesions, diluted with physiological serum, agglutinated with the antibrucellic serum and this fact may constitute, together with other means of investigation, a method of rapid diagnosis.
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