Assessment of diagnostic accuracy of a commercial ELISA for the detection of Toxoplasma gondii infection in pigs compared with IFAT, TgSAG1-ELISA and Western blot, using a Bayesian latent class approach

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 565-570

  Basso, Walter ^a   Hartnack, Sonja ^a   Pardini, Lais ^b,c   Maksimov, Pavlo ^d   Koudela, Bretislav ^e   Venturini, Maria C ^b   Schares, Gereon ^d   Sidler, Xaver ^a   Lewis, Fraser I ^a   Deplazes, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; ELISA; Latent class analysis; Pig; Sensitivity; Serology; Specificity; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTIBODY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE INFESTATION; PIG;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELISA KIT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEAT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PIG FARMING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARGENTINA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; SWINE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ARGENTINA;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84877102528     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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