Efficacy of several serological tests and antigens for diagnosis of bovine brucellosis in the presence of false-positive serological results due to Yersinia enterocolitica O:9

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 141-151

  Munoz P M ^a   Marin C M ^a   Monreal, D ^a,b   Gonzalez D ^b   Garin Bastuji, B ^c   Diaz R ^b   Mainar Jaime, R C ^d   Moriyon I ^b   Blasco, J M ^a  

^a Ctro de Invest/Tecn Agroaliment   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; EPITOPE; HAPTEN; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; ROSE BENGAL;

ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTER IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; COW; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN TEST; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE; CATTLE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 12544257285     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.1.141-151.2005     Document Type: Article

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