情報見つけました。もう知ってるかな？
要約すると、今までの試験管凝集検査よりＭＡＴという検査方法は、簡単にできるより良い検査で、神奈川県のシェルターの犬485頭中12頭（2.5％）で陽性反応が出た、というものです。
シェルターの犬といっても、昔のように野良犬よりも放棄された犬のほうが多いでしょうから、一般家庭にも蔓延してると考えたほうがやっぱりよさそうですね。
できれば陽性犬のシェルター以前の飼育場所が知りたいところですね。
Evaluation of a microplate agglutination test (MAT) for serological diagnosis of canine brucellosis.
Kimura M, Imaoka K, Suzuki M, Kamiyama T, Yamada A.
Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
A microplate agglutination test (MAT) was compared with the tube agglutinin test (TAT), a standard test for the diagnosis of Brucella canis, in terms of the sensitivity and specificity. The results showed that MAT was more sensitive, simpler to perform and easier to read the results than TAT. On top of that the MAT allows us to handle a larger number of samples at once. Using this method we conducted sero-surveillance of the prevalence of B. canis in dogs kept in an Animal Shelter located in Kanagawa Prefecture. Twelve of 485 (2.5%) showed seropositive against B. canis. These results indicate that B. canis infection in dogs is still occurring in Japan.
J Vet Med Sci. 2008 Jul;70(7):707-9. |
No.171 - 2008/11/20(Thu) 19:49:02
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