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Infected dairy animals can shed the pathogen in milk, making milk a noninvasive and readily accessible sample for disease surveillance. Therefore, detection of Brucella in milk can be used for monitoring brucellosis in dairy herds. In this study, polyclonal antibodies were produced by immunizing camels with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) derived from Brucella abortus vaccine strain 19 (A19). These antibodies were subsequently conjugated to magnetic beads to develop immunomagnetic beads (IMBs). The IMBs were combined with a sandwich ELISA for the enrichment and detection of Brucella in milk samples. The IMB-sELISA showed a limit of detection (LOD) of 1 \u00d7 104 CFU\/mL. The method reduced matrix interference and showed satisfactory analytical performance. 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