Evaluation of bluetongue virus diagnostic tests in free-ranging bighorn sheep

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 265-282

  Singer, Randall S ^a   Boyce, Walter M ^a   Gardner, Ian A ^a   Johnson, Wesley O ^a   Fisher, Amy S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluetongue virus; Diagnosis viruses; EM algorithm; Maximum likelihood; Newton Raphson; Sensitivity and specificity; Sheep viruses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; IMMUNODIFFUSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION STUDIES; IMMUNODIFFUSION; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; NEW MEXICO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP;

EID: 0032580821     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(98)00067-1     Document Type: Article

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