Risk factors associated with negative in-vivo diagnostic results in bovine tuberculosis-infected cattle in Spain

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Álvarez, Julio ^a,b   Perez, Andrés ^c,d   Marqués, Sergio ^e   Bezos, Javier ^b   Grau, Anna ^e   de la Cruz, Maria L ^b   Romero, Beatriz ^b   Saez, Jose L ^f   del Rosario Esquivel, Maria ^e   del Carmen Martínez, Maria ^e   Mínguez, Olga ^e   De Juan, Lucía ^b   Domínguez, Lucas ^b  

^a INSTITUTO RAMÓN Y CAJAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA IRYCIS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^e Servicio de Programas de Salud y Prevención de la Dirección Técnica de Recursos Humanos y Gestión de Centros Gerencia de Servicios Sociales   (Spain)

^f Ministerio de Agricultura Alimentación y Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cattle; Diagnosis; Interferon gamma assay; Risk factors; Single tuberculin test; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE;

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 84892376935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-10-14     Document Type: Article

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