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| Lilenbaum,Walter; Ferreira,Rachel; Marassi,Carla Dray; Ristow,Paula; Oelemann,Walter Martins Roland; Fonseca,Leila de Souza. |
| Forty-four cows from five herds infected with tuberculosis (TB) and without paratuberculosis (PTB), and 21 cows from a herd without either infection were studied. The cattle presented concordant results in both the skin test and gamma-interferon assay for TB and two commercial ELISAs for PTB. Animals were divided according to TB test results into Group A with 28 TB-infected animals, Group B with 16 TB-negative animals from infected herds, and Group C with 21 TB-negative cows from a tuberculosis-free herd (which were used as controls). Twenty of 28 animals from Group A (71.4%), 6/16 from Group B (37.5%) and none from Group C were reactive to PTB ELISAs, suggesting that these commercial kits were unable to distinguish between PTB and TB. It is proposed that... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Paratuberculosis; Tuberculosis; Mycobacterium bovis; Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822007000300016 |
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