| Literature DB >> 19394096 |
Catherine Cêtre-Sossah1, Agnès Billecocq, Renaud Lancelot, Cédric Defernez, Jacques Favre, Michèle Bouloy, Dominique Martinez, Emmanuel Albina.
Abstract
This paper describes the sensitivity and specificity of a commercial competitive ELISA for the detection of antibodies to Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) from sera of French domestic ruminants. Field samples were collected from mainland France for the known-negative sera (cattle=191, goats=119, sheep=192) and from ruminants of a French overseas territory (Mayotte) for the known-positive sera. A cut-off value of 43% was determined for all species, achieving a sensitivity and specificity of 100% and a concordance of 100% with the species-specific threshold recommended by the manufacturer. Our results demonstrate that this ELISA may be a suitable diagnostic tool for disease surveillance programmes and import/export veterinary certification of French cattle, goats and sheep.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19394096 DOI： 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.03.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Prev Vet Med ISSN： 0167-5877 Impact factor: 2.670