Comparison of four diagnostic tests for the identification of serum antibodies in small ruminants infected with mycoplasma agalactiae

New Zealand Veterinary Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-15

  Kittelberger, R ^a   O'Keefe J S ^a   Meynell, R ^a   Sewell, M ^a   Rosati, S ^b   Lambert, M ^c   Dufour, P ^c   Pepin M ^c  

^a Ministry for Primary Industries   (New Zealand)

^b Dipartimento di Produzioni Animali Epidemiologia ed Ecologia   (Italy)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

Contagious agalactia; ELISA; Mycoplasma agalactiae; Serum antibody; Western blot

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CONTAGIOUS PLEUROPNEUMONIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SHEEP; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TESTS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; PLEUROPNEUMONIA, CONTAGIOUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33644996068     PISSN: 00480169     EISSN: 11760710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2006.36597     Document Type: Article

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