DETECTION OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ـVIRUS INFECTION ASSOCIATED ANTIBODIES IN SHEEP SERA IN BASRA BY AGID TEST

Wessam M. Muhammed Saleh et al.,

DETECTION OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ـVIRUS INFECTION ASSOCIATED ANTIBODIES IN SHEEP SERA IN BASRA BY AGID TEST

2015

Wessam M. Muhammed Saleh et al.,

This study was performed to detect the antibodies against the virus-infectionassociated antigen (VIAA) in previously diseased sheep in Basra. The test is valuablein epizootiological surveys because only infected animals with foot and mouth diseasevirus will give positive reaction.Seventy five sheep sera were re-tested by AGID test to VIA antibodies from241 sheep sera examined by ELISA-VIAA test, collected from 13 suspicious infectedsheep flocks with FMD from two areas in Basra.It was found -by AGID test that 56% of the total positive tested sheep sera toELISA build specific VIA antibodies against FMD virus, and that 96% of the negativeELISA samples were negative to AGID test.The results indicated that ELISA technique was more sensitive than AGIDtechnique

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