Infection of cattle with Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 a cause of the false positive serological reactions in bovine brucellosis diagnostic tests

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 101-112

  Weynants, Vincent ^a   Tibor, Anne ^a   Denoel, Philippe A ^a   Saegerman, Claude ^a   Godfroid, Jacques ^b   Thiange, Pierre ^c   Letesson, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b Belgian National Institute for Veterinary Research   (Belgium)

^c Ctr Depistage des Maladies Animales   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brucella abortus; Cattle; Outer membrane proteins; Serodiagnosis; Yersinia enterocolitica

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; SERODIAGNOSIS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE; CATTLE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0030048058     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1135(95)00153-0     Document Type: Article

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