1.Prospective evaluation of the diagnostic potential of LipL32 based latex agglutination test for Bovine leptospirosis
Sabarinath, T. ; Behera, S.K ; Chopra, S. ; Deneke, Y. ; Sharma, V. ; Ali, S.A. ; Chaudhuri, P. ; Kumar, A.
Tropical Biomedicine 2019;36(2):367-372
The Livestock Sector of India plays an important role in livelihood security and
socioeconomic development of rural households. Leptospirosis is an important zoonotic
disease responsible for septicaemia, interstitial nephritis, jaundice, abortion, reproductive
problem in most of the animal species. Reproductive disturbances in bovine population is
most often restricted to investigation of brucellosis, however apart from brucellosis, there
are many undiagnosed diseases like leptospirosis that takes a toll in the reproductive
anomalies of cattle and buffalo. Hence, the present study was elucidated to screen the
seroprevalence of Leptospira in cattle and buffalo in various hamlets of North India using
a user friendly screening test i.e. LipL32 latex agglutination test. The overall seropositivity
was found to be 26.01% (230/884) in case of bovine in this study and the LipL32 LAT
showed a profound sensitivity and specificity with level of 94.97% and 99.53% respectively.
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