Sensitivity and specificity of an indirect ELISA test for diagnosis of

Authors

  • Renato Carminati
  • Robson Bahia
  • Lília Ferreira de Moura Costa
  • Bruno Jean Adrien Paule
  • Vera Lúcia Vale
  • Lia Regis
  • Songeli Menezes Freire
  • Ivana Nascimento
  • Robert Schaer
  • Roberto Meyer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/cmbio.v2i1.4256

Keywords:

Caseous lymphadenitis, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, Goats, ELISA.

Abstract

An indirect ELISA test was developed and standardized for the diagnosis of caseous lymphadenitis in goats. The culture supernatant of a 48h culture of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis cultivated in BHI broth was used as antigen. In order to determine the cut off and the evaluation of the sensibility and the specificity, thirty one serum samples from infected goats with caseous lesions, whose presence of C. pseudotuberculosis was confirmed by positive culture, were used, as well as fifty six serum samples from no infected goats. The sensitivity and the specificity of the test were calculated by ROC analysis. The sensitivity and the specificity of the ELISA BHI test were 93.5% and 100%, respectively.

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Author Biographies

Renato Carminati

  

Robson Bahia

   

Published

2003-01-01

How to Cite

Carminati, R., Bahia, R., Costa, L. F. de M., Paule, B. J. A., Vale, V. L., Regis, L., Freire, S. M., Nascimento, I., Schaer, R., & Meyer, R. (2003). Sensitivity and specificity of an indirect ELISA test for diagnosis of. Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences, 2(1), 88–93. https://doi.org/10.9771/cmbio.v2i1.4256

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