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Effective Application of Diagnostics for Bovine Leukemia Virus in Dairy Cattle  

Youn, Choong-Keun (College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk Unoversity)
Jung, Ho-Kyoung (College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk Unoversity)
Sunwoo, Sun-Young (College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk Unoversity)
Lyoo, Young-S. (College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk Unoversity)
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Journal of Veterinary Clinics / v.27, no.4, 2010 , pp. 402-406 More about this Journal
Abstract
Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a delta-retrovirus which causes chronic lymphocytosis in cattle. BLV infections have been divided into two groups such as enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL) and sporadic bovine leukosis (SBL) according to the clinical symptoms in infected cattle. The conventional detection method of BLV was hematological procedure which is determining lymphocytosis in the suspected animals. Recently several sensitive methods were developed to detect antibody to BLV and nucleic acid of the BLV from infected cattle. In this study we have compared the difference of positive rates between agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) which are using for BLV antibody detection methods. The positive detection rate of ELISA test was 7.4% greater than the positive rate of AGID. The discrepancy of the positive rate between ELISA and AGID were showed in the group of age over one year old to under three year old group. The result from each test agreed very well in the group of over 5 year old cattles. The serological test is very useful method to select the infected cattle for the eradication or control of the disease in the infected herd. But it has a limit by interference of the maternal antibody from the cow of under 6 month old. This study shows that 16.2% of these ages group showed BLV gene positive by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. The result suggests that ELISA test need to be used with PCR to clarify misinterpretation of positive animals by antibody response due to the natural infection from maternally derived antibody in calves of under 6 months old.
Keywords
Enzootic bovine leukosis; bovine leukemia virus (BLV); agar gel immunodiffusion test (AGID); enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA);
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