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An automated complement fixation test for Brucella ovis in sheep

1974; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 22; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00480169.1974.34120

1176-0710

W. Weddell,

Escherichia coli research studies

Abstract Extract Clapp (1955) Clapp, K. H. 1955. A complement fixation test for the diagnosis of ovine brucellosis with special reference to epididymitis. Aust. vet. J., 31: 27–28. [Google Scholar] showed the complement fixation test (C.F.T.) for Brucella ovis in sheep to be well correlated to bacteriological findings in cases where lesions were minimal or absent. His observations were confirmed by Biberstein and McGowan (1958) Biberstein, E. L. and McGowan, B. 1958. Epididymitis in rams. Studies on laboratory diagnosis. Cornell Vet, 48: 31–44. [Google Scholar] who found the agglutination test to be less reliable than the C.F.T. in this respect, and stressed the useful-ness of the C.F.T. in the detection of asymptomatic shedders of the organism and animals in the incubation stages of the disease. They also pointed out that the detection of such slightly infected individuals would be the one indispensable condition of any successful eradication programme.