Detection of antibody to alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 by ELISA in cattle with sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever.

Authors

  • Siao-kun Wan Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
  • Anthony E. Castro Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol0no21p47-51

Keywords:

cattle diseases, ELISA, IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES, viral diseases

Abstract

ELISA for malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) was positive in 30 of 128 samples from cattle of affected herds in California and Colorado; the serum neutralization test was negative. 11 of another 47 samples from experimentally and naturally infected cattle in Colorado were positive to ELISA, while 4 samples contained small amounts of neutralizing antibody. Among 35 serum samples from cattle in Indiana, positive for bovid herpesvirus 1, 11 were positive to MCF herpesvirus, although all of 88 samples from Oklahoma positive for herpesvirus 1 were negative in ELISA for MCF.

Author Biographies

Siao-kun Wan, Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078

Dr. Wan’s present address is: Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Anthony E. Castro, Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078

Dr. Castro’s present address is: California Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Service, Davis, California 95616

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Published

1986-11-01

How to Cite

Wan, S.- kun, & Castro, A. E. (1986). Detection of antibody to alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 by ELISA in cattle with sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever. The Bovine Practitioner, (21), 47–51. https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol0no21p47-51

Issue

No. 21 (1986 November)

Section

Articles