Optimization of a whole-blood gamma interferon assay for detection of Mycobacterium bovis-infected cattle

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1196-1202

  Schiller, Irene ^a   Waters, W Ray ^b   Vordermeier, H Martin ^c   Nonnecke, Brian ^b   Welsh, Michael ^d   Keck, Nicolas ^e   Whelan, Adam ^c   Sigafoose, Teresa ^f   Stamm, Christoph ^a   Palmer, Mitchell ^b   Thacker, Tyler ^b   Hardegger, Roland ^a   Marg Haufe, Beatrice ^a   Raeber, Alex ^a   Oesch, Bruno ^a  

^a Prionics AG   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e Laboratoire Départemental Vétérinaire de l'Hérault   (France)

^f National Veterinary Services Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREEZE THAWING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 68149181521     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00150-09     Document Type: Article

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