Detection of foot and mouth disease virus infection associated antibodies in sheep sera in Basra by agid test

الملخص EN

This study was performed to detect the antibodies against the virus-infectionassociated antigen (VIAA) in previously diseased sheep in Basra.

The test is valuable in epizootiological surveys because only infected animals with foot and mouth disease virus will give positive reaction.

Seventy five sheep sera were re-tested by AGID test to VIA antibodies from 241 sheep sera examined by ELISA-VIAA test, collected from 13 suspicious infected sheep flocks with FMD from two areas in Basra.

It was found -by AGID test that 56% of the total positive tested sheep sera to ELISA build specific VIA antibodies against FMD virus, and that 96% of the negative ELISA samples were negative to AGID test.

The results indicated that ELISA technique was more sensitive than AGID technique.