Ante mortem diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle: a review of the tuberculin tests, γ-interferon assay and other ancillary diagnostic techniques

R De la Rua-Domenech, AT Goodchild… - Research in veterinary …, 2006 - Elsevier
Tests of humoral (antibody) immunity, … or live cattle specimens, and tests based on “electronic
nose” technology have been developed more recently. The key measure of diagnostic test

Advances in ante-mortem diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle

BM Buddle, PG Livingstone… - New Zealand Veterinary …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… , the tuberculin skin test and the IFN-γ test (BOVIGAM; Prionics… skin test and removal of
test-positive (reactor) cattle have … diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis in skin test-positive cattle . …

Progress in the development of vaccines and diagnostic reagents to control tuberculosis in cattle

HM Vordermeier, MA Chambers, BM Buddle… - The Veterinary …, 2006 - Elsevier
… (1) cattle vaccines against TB and (2) associated diagnostic … and infected animals (differential
diagnosis). This review … diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis, and particularly on …

Evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of bovine tuberculosis diagnostic tests in naturally infected cattle herds using a Bayesian approach

J Álvarez, A Perez, J Bezos, S Marqués, A Grau… - Veterinary …, 2012 - Elsevier
… from a herd; thus the use of accurate diagnostic tests is of crucial importance. Diagnostic
tests used for detection of infected cattle are mainly based in the detection of the cellular …

A field evaluation of serological and cellular diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis

PR Wood, LA Corner, JS Rothel, JL Ripper, T Fifis… - Veterinary …, 1992 - Elsevier
… to be a practical diagnostic test for use with large groups of cattle. … diagnostic test for bovine
tuberculosis, in Australia and New Zealand, is the single intradermal tuberculin (SID) test. In …

Appraisal of interpretation criteria for the comparative intradermal tuberculin test for diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle in central Ethiopia

G Ameni, G Hewinson, A Aseffa, D Young… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
… >2-mm cutoff for testing of cattle in central Ethiopia. The tuberculin skin test is the primary
diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) in both humans and cattle. Tuberculins are crude antigen …

Evaluation of different diagnostics tests for detection of tuberculosis in cattle

C Prakash, P Kumar, B Joseph, AK Niranjan, D Sharma… - 2015 - indianjournals.com
tests are more suited in diagnosis of … diagnostic tests in detection of bovine tuberculosis
in cattle and identifying the positive cases which were missed in single intradermal skin testing

Association between results of diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis and Johne's disease in cattle

C Picasso‐Risso, A Grau, D Bakker, J Nacar… - Veterinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
diagnostic tests on the JD status at the herd and animal level to evaluate the potential for
diagnostic … Specifically, the authors aimed at testing two hypotheses, namely (a) frequent testing

In vitro immunodiagnostic assays for bovine tuberculosis

PR Wood, JS Rothel - Veterinary microbiology, 1994 - Elsevier
… , lymphocyte proliferation assay and the interferon"y assay have shown more promise than
serological tests for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle. The major conclusions from the …

Antibody detection tests improve the sensitivity of tuberculosis diagnosis in cattle

C Casal, JA Infantes, MA Risalde… - Research in Veterinary …, 2017 - Elsevier
… We evaluated the sensitivity (Se) of the single cervical intradermal tuberculin (SIT) test, two
tuberculosis (bTB) diagnosis in 131 mixed beef breed cattle. The results of the diagnostic