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Performance of skin tests with allergens from B. melitensis B115 and rough B. abortus mutants for diagnosing swine brucellosis.
Veterinary microbiology - 10 Jan 2014
Dieste-Pérez L, Blasco J M, De Miguel M J, Marín C M, Barberán M, Conde-Álvarez R, Moriyón I, Muñoz P M
Abstract excerpt
Swine brucellosis by Brucella suis biovar 2 is an emerging disease whose control is based on serological testing and culling. However, current serological tests detect antibodies to the O-polysaccharide (O/PS) moiety of Brucella smooth lipopolysaccharide (S-LPS), and thus lack specificity when infections by Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 and other gram-negative bacteria carrying cross-reacting O/PS occur. The skin...
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