Diagnosis of Brucellosis in Livestock and Wildlife
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Diagnosis of brucellosis in livestock and wildlife.
AIM To describe and discuss the merits of various direct and indirect methods applied in vitro (mainly on blood or milk) or in vivo (allergic test) for the diagnosis of brucellosis in animals. METHODS The recent literature on brucellosis diagnostic tests was reviewed. These diagnostic tests are applied with different goals, such as national screening, confirmatory diagnosis, certification, an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Croatian Medical Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0353-9504,1332-8166
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2010.51.296