The incidence of Brucella ovis in some Kenya flocks and its relationship to clinical lesions and semen quality.

Abstract

Three flocks (all Romney Marsh) out of 13 were found to be infected, suggesting the disease had been introduced through sheep importations from New Zealand. A study of clinical lesions in the genital tract and of seminal quality made in these and in five of the uninfected flocks showed that Br. ovis infection is associated with a high incidence of epididymitis and orchitis, and a general deterioration in seminal quality with secondary morphological abnormalities of the spermatozoa being a prominent feature.