| Literature DB >> 16979238 |
R Mariya1, Pallab Chaudhary, A A Kumar, E Thangapandian, R Amutha, S K Srivastava.
Abstract
The efficacy of a recombinant leptospiral lipoprotein LipL41 as an antigen for conducting enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for diagnosis of bovine leptospirosis was evaluated. Using known positive and known negative cattle sera the recombinant antigen was found to be highly reactive in the concentration of 100 ng/well. Using a total of 321 field cattle sera the sensitivity of ELISA as compared to microscopic agglutination test (MAT) was calculated to be 100% whereas the specificity was 85.3%. The seropositivity of leptospirosis among bovine population was found to be 21.18% having the predominance of serovars Sejroe and Pomona. It was concluded that rLipL41 protein could be a putative diagnostic candidate for serodiagnosis of bovine leptospirosis.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16979238 DOI： 10.1016/j.cimid.2006.06.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis ISSN： 0147-9571 Impact factor: 2.268