“…Bovine brucellosis may also be responsible for retention of placenta and metritis and results in 25% reduction in milk production in infected cows (Acha and Szyfres, 2003;Anonymous, 2006). The overall seroprevalence of bovine brucellosis reported in Bangladesh is 5.3% (4.8 to 6.2) (Ahmed et al, 1992;Amin et al, 2004Amin et al, , 2005Nahar and Ahmed, 2009;Ahasan and Song, 2010;Sikder et al, 2012;Belal and Ansari, 2013;Dey et al, 2013;Islam et al, 2013) and overall prevalence of brucellosis in cows based on milk ring test (MRT) is 5.6% (4.8 to 6.3) (Pharo et al, 1981;Rahman and Rahman, 1981;Rahman et al, 1983;Sikder et al, 2012). B. abortus DNA has also been detected from bovine milk and serum samples using real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays (Rahman et al, 2014(Rahman et al, , 2017 in Bangladesh.…”