Current Status of Seroprevalence of Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis using Avidin-Biotin Elisa in She-Buffaloes

Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), an enzootic disease caused by bovine herpesvirus-1(BHV-1) is a list “B” disease of the Office International des Epizooties (OIE). It is one of the most widespread respiratory/reproductive viral diseases of bovines in India (Kiran et al. 2005). IBR has been known to exist in India since 1976 (Mehrotra et al. 1976). The reported seroprevalence in buffaloes varied from 2.75 to 81.0 per cent (Sinha et al. 2003, Malmurugan et al. 2004). It is an economically important disease of cattle and buffaloes and causes abortions, infertility, meningoencephalitis, keratoconjunctivitis, respiratory and genital tract infections. The present paper records the current status on seroprevalence of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis based on avidin-biotin ELISA in buffaloes as ELISA is more sensitive (Payment et al. 1979) of all the serological techniques available for the assay of antibodies to BHV-1 infection.

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Buffaloes, IBR, Seroprevalence

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