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Age-Specific Characteristics of ELISA and Fecal Culture for Purpose-Specific Testing for Paratuberculosis
1 Feb 2006
Abstract excerpt
Paratuberculosis is a chronic infection, and animals are not equally affected by it. Therefore, diagnostic tests that are able to detect different stages of the infection are needed for objective decision making. A longitudinal study was carried out to describe the ability of 2 tests to predict 2 conditions in dairy cattle: "infection" and "infectious," exemplifying 2 different purposes of testing. "Infection" is...
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