Assessment of classical swine fever diagnostics and vaccine performance

• Published in: Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) Vol. 25; no. 3; p. 1025
• Main Authors: Blome, S, Meindl-Böhmer, A, Loeffen, W, Thuer, B, Moennig, V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: France 01.12.2006
• Subjects: Animals; cell-culture; chinese strain; Classical Swine Fever - diagnosis; Classical Swine Fever - prevention & control; Classical Swine Fever Virus - immunology; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay - standards; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay - veterinary; Fluorescent Antibody Technique - standards; Fluorescent Antibody Technique - veterinary; hog-cholera; Neutralization Tests - standards; Neutralization Tests - veterinary; oral immunization; pcr assay; pigs; pregnant sows; Reagent Kits, Diagnostic - standards; Reagent Kits, Diagnostic - veterinary; Reproducibility of Results; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction - standards; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction - veterinary; Sensitivity and Specificity; subunit marker-vaccine; Sus scrofa; Swine; Vaccines, Marker; Viral Vaccines - immunology; virus; wild boar

Rapid and accurate diagnosis is of the utmost importance in the control of epizootic diseases such as classical swine fever (CSF), and efficacious vaccination can be used as a supporting tool. While most of the recently developed CSF vaccines and diagnostic kits are mostly validated according to Wor...