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Volume 15(4): 468-475, 2011. Redacted 2018.
Multi-testing
brucellosis in small ruminants
Maninder Singh MVSc,
DK Singh PhD, Rupa Boral MVSc,
Gita Kumari MVSc, Shriya Rawat MVSc,
Ripan Biswas MVSc.
Division of Veterinary
Public Health, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar,
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), India
ABSTRACT
Singh M, Singh DK,
Boral R, Kumari G, Rawat S, Biswas R., Multi-testing
brucellosis in small ruminants, Onl J Vet Res,
15(4): 468-475, 2011. The seroprevalence of brucellosis in various regions in India
was determined in 398 goats and 604 sheep using the rose bengal plate (RBPT), standard tube agglutination (STAT),
complement fixation (CFT) and indirect-ELISA tests. A high number of positives
were found in Karnataka, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. ELISA detected 15.77%
positives in 158 , CFT 11.88% in 119, STAT 11.08% in
111 and RBPT 7.58% in 76 animals. I-ELISA detected 15.33% in 61 goats and
16.06% in 97 sheep whereas RBPT only detected 5.28% in 21 goats and 9.11% in 55
sheep. There were significant differences between sensitivities of RBPT, STAT
and I-ELISA. Interestingly, the RBPT test was least sensitive in goats (62.50
%) and sheep (67.74 %) whereas I-ELISA was more sensitive at 93.55% in goats
and 87.50% in sheep. I-ELISA produced the highest performance index value in
both species. In goats, the highest agreement was between RBPT and CFT while in
sheep it was between I-ELISA and CFT.
Keywords: brucellosis,
sheep, goats, serological tests.
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