The diagnosis of bovine mastitis : a critical evaluation of a polyvalent radial immunodiffusion test and other methods
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Giesecke, W.H.
Van den Heever, Louwrens Wepener
Du Toit, I.J.
Beyer, Maria C. E.
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Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria
Abstract
A critically comparative investigation was performed on 228 quarter samples from 26 Friesland-type dairy cows respectively to evaluate the diagnostic value of conventional direct and indirect cytological methods and a single radial immunodiffusion test based on a polyvalent antiserum.
Data obtained suggest considerable diagnostic inaccuracies for all the methods tested. The lack of an adequate "mastitis standard" prevented a precise determination of the magnitude of the diagnostic inaccuracies.
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Veterinary medicine
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Giesecke, WH, Van den Heever, LW, Du Toit, IJ & Beyer, MCE 1973, 'The diagnosis of bovine mastitis: a critical evaluation of a polyvalent radial immunodiffusion test and other methods’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 59-67.