The use of latex agglutination test as a rapid method for detection of antibodies to mycoplasma bovis in comparison with Elisa

الملخص EN

Mycoplasma bovid (M.

bovid) induces various clinical manifestations in cattle, such as mastitis, arthritis, and pneumonia.

A latex agglutination test (LAT) has been developed to detect antibodies in bovine sera as a field test.

A total of 80 milk and serum samples collected from a confirmed infected bovine farm were tested by conventional cultural method and indirect enzyme linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA).

Milk samples cultivation revealed positive in only 24 (30 %) while ELISA detected 33 (41.25 %).

LAT and ELISA on serum samples detected only 54 (67.5 %) of samples.

LAT allows rapid and inexpensive test that could be useful in the field for primary herd screening prior to confirmatory laboratory diagnosis of M.

bovid.