Screening badgers (Meles meles) for Mycobacterium bovis infection by using multiple applications of an ELISA

Veterinary Record

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 169-172

  Forrester, G J ^a,c   Delahay, R J ^a   Clifton Hadley, R S ^b  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c CSL Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MELES MELES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TAXIDIINAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PATHOGENICITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CARNIVORA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0035845403     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.149.6.169     Document Type: Article

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