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Meat juice and serum samples from hares and wild boars were used in the ELISA for the examination for the presence of anti-Brucella antibodies. A high correlation between meat juice ELISA and serum ELISA was obtained. All 9 meat juice samples from hares with anatomopathological lesions characteristic of brucellosis (from 8 animals Brucella was isolated) were positive in the ELISA, similarly as sera. Out of 46 remaining hares only 1 reacted positively in the meat juice ELISA and it was not confirmed by the serum ELISA and other methods. As concerns the material from wild boars 12.3% of sera (out of 933 samples) and 13.7% of meat juice samples ( out of 336) were positive in the ELISA. Among 48 serum and meat juice samples coming from the same animals, 6 samples were positive both in the serum ELISA and meat juice ELISA and 42 were negative. The meat juice ELISA proved to be a valuable method for testing both hares and wild boars for anti-Brucella antibodies.