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Asian Journal of Scientific Research

Year: 2008 | Volume: 1 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 171-175
DOI: 10.3923/ajsr.2008.171.175
Excretory-Secretory Antigens are Better than Crude Antigens for Serodiagnosis of Haemonchus contortus
R.A. Mir, M.Z. Chishti, M.A. Zargar, Hidayatullah Tak and S.A. Ganie

Abstract: Serodiagnosis of Haemonchus contortus by ELISA using adult crude somatic and excretory-secretory antigens of Haemonchus contortus was tested in the present study. The diagnostic sensitivity of ELISA using excretory secretory antigens was 87.5% which was significantly higher compared to crude somatic antigen 72.22%. Mean ELISA absorbance value of excretory-secretory antigens was significantly higher corresponding to crude somatic antigens. Excretory secretory antigens showed 92.02% specificity compared to 76.81% of crude somatic antigens (p<0.05). The results revealed that excretory secretory antigens are very sensitive and may be useful as a supplementary method for diagnosis of Haemonchosis in ruminants.

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R.A. Mir, M.Z. Chishti, M.A. Zargar, Hidayatullah Tak and S.A. Ganie, 2008. Excretory-Secretory Antigens are Better than Crude Antigens for Serodiagnosis of Haemonchus contortus. Asian Journal of Scientific Research, 1: 171-175.

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