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Sensitivity and specificity of a commercial BSE kit for the detection of ovine scrapie
Author(s) -
Yamamoto Takuji,
UshikiKaku Yuko,
Yokoyama Takashi,
Hattori Shunji
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
animal science journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.606
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1740-0929
pISSN - 1344-3941
DOI - 10.1111/asj.12032
Subject(s) - scrapie , bovine spongiform encephalopathy , transmissible spongiform encephalopathy , detection limit , virology , prion protein , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , chemistry , pathology , medicine , chromatography , disease
To examine the sensitivity of a commercially available bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) kit ( NippIBL ) for the detection of ovine scrapie, 50 scrapie‐positive ovine samples from the UK , and 54 scrapie‐negative ovine samples from J apan were obtain and tested using this kit. The sensitivity and specificity of NippIBL for ovine samples were 96% and 100%, respectively. The detection limit of the abnormal isoform of prion protein ( PrP Sc ) of NippIBL was examined using diluted scrapie‐positive samples. The sensitivity of NippIBL to ovine scrapie was 3–10 times superior to that of another commercial BSE diagnosis kit. Thus, the NippIBL kit proved more effective for the detection of ovine scrapie.