An Inter-Laboratory Comparative Study of Serological Tools Employed in the Diagnosis of Besnoitia besnoiti Infection in Bovines

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-68

  Garcia Lunar P ^a   Ortega Mora, L M ^a   Schares, G ^b   Gollnick, N S ^c   Jacquiet, P ^d   Grisez, C ^d   Prevot, F ^d   Frey, C F ^e   Gottstein, B ^e   Alvarez Garcia, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Besnoitia besnoiti; Comparative study; Diagnosis; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Indirect fluorescent antibody test; Western blot

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; STANDARD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUROPE; FEMALE; LABORATORY PROFICIENCY TESTING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

ANIMALIA; BESNOITIA; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BOVINAE;

EID: 84872268855     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2012.01318.x     Document Type: Article

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