Comparison of a flow assay for brucellosis antibodies with the reference cELISA test in West African Bos indicus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  de C Bronsvoort, Barend M ^a   Koterwas, Bronwyn ^a   Land, Fiona ^a   Handel, Ian G ^a   Tucker, James ^c   Morgan, Kenton L ^d   Tanya, Vincent N ^e   Abdoel, Theresia H ^b   Smits, Henk L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BRUCELLOSIS; CAMEROON; CATTLE FARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATERAL FLOW ASSAY; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BAYES THEOREM; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS INDICUS; BOVINAE; CELSIA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY;

EID: 65349148489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005221     Document Type: Article

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