Detection by two enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays of antibodies to Ehrlichia ruminantium in field sera collected from sheep and cattle in Ghana

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 917-925

  Bell Sakyi, Lesley ^a,b   Koney, Enoch B M ^a   Dogbey, Otilia ^a   Sumption, Keith J ^b,e   Walker, Alan R ^b   Bath, Alasdair ^b,f   Jongejan, Frans ^c,d  

^a Ministry of Food and Agriculture Ghana   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^f NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; MAJOR ANTIGENIC PROTEIN 1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMBLYOMMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPOSURE; GHANA; HEARTWATER DISEASE; INFESTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYCLONAL COMPETITIVE ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CATTLE; EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GHANA; HEARTWATER DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP;

EID: 0141788539     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.5.917-925.2003     Document Type: Article

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