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Doenças dos Cavalos/epidemiologia , Infecções por Morbillivirus/veterinária , Morbillivirus , Adulto , Animais , Anticorpos Antivirais/análise , Anticorpos Antivirais/imunologia , Encefalite/etiologia , Encefalite/imunologia , Encefalite/mortalidade , Feminino , Doenças dos Cavalos/imunologia , Doenças dos Cavalos/mortalidade , Cavalos , Humanos , Masculino , Morbillivirus/imunologia , Infecções por Morbillivirus/complicações , Infecções por Morbillivirus/epidemiologia , Gravidez , Queensland/epidemiologiaRESUMO
An enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to detect antibody to bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) in bovine serum. The ELISA results were compared with those of the serum neutralisation test (SNT) using serums from 6 experimentally infected calves bled at intervals from 0 to 154 days postinfection and 886 field samples. The optical density (OD) produced by a single dilution of test serum was compared with a standard curve and the result expressed in ELISA units. Despite wide variation between absolute ELISA and SNT results, an agreement of 97% was obtained when reciprocal SNT titres greater than or equal to 8 and ELISA units greater than or equal to 10 were taken as indicative of a specific reaction. The ELISA was shown to be an efficient method of measuring antibody in bovine serum samples and would assist in any large scale screening of cattle herds for BVDV antibody.
