Critical Field Appraisal for the Use of Bovine Tuberculosis’ Antibody Detecting-Serodiagnostics
Rafik Soliman1, Neven Waheeb2, Essam Nasr2, Mahmoud El-Hariri1, Heidy Abo-Elyazeed1, Hassan Aboul-Ella1*
1Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; 2The Holding Company for Biopharmaceuticals and Vaccines, Cairo, Egypt.
*Correspondence | Hassan Aboul-Ella, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; Email: hasanabo@cu.edu.eg
Figure 1:
A flowchart illustrating the overall testing flow of each animal involved in the study.
Figure 2:
A representative sample of the direct Ziehl Neelsen technique stained slides.
Table 3:
Results of the correlation between the age of the animal and PM finding of the slaughtered cases.
Figure 3:
Correlation between site of lesion and the isolated mycobacteria spp.
Figure 4:
Comparison between bacteriological examination and serological testing (lateral flow kits) of tuberculin positive cattle.
Figure 5:
Comparison between the result of the ELISA test, rapid lateral flow test, and bacteriological isolation of tuberculin-positive cattle. MOTT; Mycobacteria Other Than Tuberculosis.