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Background  Brucellosis is a zoonosis whose incidence is not declining worldwide despite the global effort to control the disease. Accurate and precise diagnosis is a crucial step in any prophylaxis program but single tests to unequivocally detect animals infected with  Brucella  spp. are currently unavailable. In Italy, serological diagnosis of bovine brucellosis is performed with two official tests: a rapid agglutination test (i.e., Rose Bengal Plate test, RBPT) and a complement fixation test (CFT) that detect antibodies directed mainly to the smooth lipopolysaccharide (S-LPS). Neither of the two tests is able to avoid the detection of false positive serological reactions (FPSRs) caused by bacteria sharing S-LPS components with  Brucella  spp. and responsible for the single reactors (SR) phenomenon. A  B. melitensis  R strain-based ELISA showed a good diagnostic performance in unravelling FP animals; however, since a limited number of animals were analyzed in that study, a large field study was conducted here to discriminate between  Brucella -infected from FP animals, with the final aim of reducing the unnecessary slaughter of the latter. An ELISA based on a R strain of  Brucella , i.e.,  Brucella melitensis  B115, was employed to measure specific IgG responses in a collection of bovine sera ( n  = 648). Sera were obtained from 180 farms (either officially brucellosis-free or not brucellosis-free) recruited during an extended period of time (2014–2018) and were preliminarily assayed with the official tests by the Italian Reference Centers and then subjected to the ELISA.    Results  Negative sera, when subjected to the ELISA, gave O.D. values below the cutoff; SR sera, i.e. RBPT positive and CFT negative, as well as double positive (DP) sera, i.e. RBPT and CFT positive, gave O.D. values that were below the cutoff. All positive sera, i.e. from  Brucella -infected animals, were RBPT positive and CFT positive (ICFTU ranging from 20 to 1280) and gave ELISA O.D. values above the cutoff.    Conclusions  The  B. melitensis  B115-based ELISA systematically unravelled all false positive (FP) sera while confirming the diagnosis in  Brucella -infected animals. Thus, the test employed in the present study may complement the official assays to avoid the costly slaughter of FP animals.

Brucella melitensis B115-based ELISA to unravel false positive serologic reactions in bovine brucellosis: a field study