Appraisal of interpretation criteria for the comparative intradermal tuberculin test for diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle in central Ethiopia

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1272-1276

  Ameni, Gobena ^a,b   Hewinson, Glyn ^c   Aseffa, Abraham ^b   Young, Douglas ^d   Vordermeier, Martin ^c  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE DISEASE; ETHIOPIA; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHIOPIA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PREVALENCE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 49149126266     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00114-08     Document Type: Article

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