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Serological characterisation of Australian isolates of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
1Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Yeerongpilly.
Abstract:
Using hyperimmune rabbit antiserums to 8 reference serovar strains, a total of 51 Australian isolates of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae were serotyped by either a rapid slide agglutination test or a gel diffusion test. The results were: serovar 1-24 isolates; serovar 2-6 isolates; serovar 3-5 isolates; serovar 7-15 isolates; nontypable-1 isolate. The rapid slide agglutination test was suitable for screening field isolates, as 73% of those tested reacted with only 1 of the 8 antiserums and were assigned to a particular serovar of the basis of this test alone.
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