The use of a Psoroptes ovis serodiagnostic test for the analysis of a natural outbreak of sheep scab

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Burgess, Stewart T G ^a   Innocent, Giles ^b   Nunn, Francesca ^a   Frew, David ^a   Kenyon, Fiona ^a   Nisbet, Alasdair J ^a   Huntley, John F ^a  

^a MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic; Ectoparasite; ELISA; Psoroptes ovis; Sheep scab

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; NONHUMAN; PRURITUS; PSOROPTIC MANGE; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; MITE INFESTATIONS; PSOROPTIDAE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; PSOROPTES OVIS;

EID: 84855518852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-7     Document Type: Article

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