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Efficacy of some diagnostic procedures used for diagnosis of Trypanosomiasis in camels
2005
A. M. El-Sherif | A. Sayed
A total of 980 camels were employed in this study for evaluation of somediagnostic procedures used for diagnosis of camel trypanosomiasis. Clinicalexamination revealed that 180 (18.37%) camels showed sings of illness including, loss of body weight, anemia, abortion, decrease of animal production and edema in some parts of the body. Parasitological examination of camel’s blood smears revealed the presence of Trypanosoma evansi in 57 (5.82%) camels. ELISA detected 99 (63.06%) positive cases while suratex test identified 80 (50.96%) positive cases. Results of mice inoculation test for detection of Trypanosoma evansi among camels showed that 69 (43.95%) camels were positive. The present study clarified that suratex test was 100% sensitive for diagnosis of trypanosomiasis followed by ELISA (98.55%).
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Expression and diagnostic application of p12 protein of African swine fever virus by recombinant baculovirus
2005
Choi, K.S. (National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Anyang, Republic of Korea), E-mail: choiks@nvrqs.go.kr | Choi, C.U. (National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Anyang, Republic of Korea) | Kim, Y.J. (National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Anyang, Republic of Korea)
African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious disease of domestic and wild pigs for which there is no vaccine in the world. A proper surveillance of viral activity and a timely response to ASF outbreaks depend upon the rapid diagnosis of ASF viral infection. Internationally prescribed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a fast, sensitive test routinely used in the diagnosis of the ASF. However, inactivated whole ASF virus antigen used in this test is a tedious to prepare and has a risk of outside exposure of infectious virus by laboratory accident during the preparation.
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