Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in dairy herds in Alberta
AUTOR(ES)
Sorensen, Ole
RESUMO
Fifty dairy herds in Alberta were tested for the presence of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis by fecal culture and serum enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Individual sera (1500) were tested for antibodies to M. paratuberculosis by ELISA. Fecal samples were combined in pools of 3 (10 pools/herd) for a total of 500 pools that were cultured for M. paratuberculosis. Thirty cultures, including all 10 pools from 1 herd, were not readable due to fungal contamination. The remaining 470 cultures, representing 49 herds, yielded 16 positive pools (3.4% ± 2.1%) from 10 herds (20.4% ± 11.3%). The ELISA of each of the 1500 sera detected 105 (7.0% ± 2.4%) positive sera and 20 (40.0% ± 13.6%) positive herds, based on 2 or more individual positive sera in the herd. The true herd-level prevalence, as determined by ELISA, was 26.8% ± 9.6%. The true herd-level prevalence, as determined by M. paratuberculosis fecal culture, ranged from 27.6% ± 6.5% to 57.1% ± 8.3%, depending on whether 1, 2, or all 3 individual fecal samples in the positive fecal pool were culture positive.
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