Studies on the diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle (cows and buffaloes) in Egypt

T:le simple latex agtlcn::L10-tion test and the kao Lin agglutir: sc Lon test were app Li.ed and assessed for uhe i.nspec i.f Lc Lvy and sens rt i.va cy iTI -Gl16 d i agno s i s of bovinetuberculosis in 19Sp-i:;. The J_’esults of the s eco Log Ic a I tests Wej:’e compared with the :results of the tuberoulin skin testirlg and c he myc ob eo t e r La I strains isolatedafter P.. examination. ’I’he two serological tests were· applied on serum sp ec Lmens of 100 c a t t Le , .Elft~r~four serum. specimenswere obt8i~ed from tuberculosis animals and 46 serum specimens from normal ones. l-e was found that tile SLAT gave 92.6% positive results wi-(ill the tiub e r-cu Lous s e.ca , Spontan eous agglu-tination was found in 7 •. 4% of s e run specimens of thisgnoup , ’rile SLAT gave 93.4% neg::,-cive results with normal seX’a 7 and 6.52% nor: s p ec i.f Le ae;glutinat ions. The kaolin agt,lutiIJatioD test showed 83.3% positive results Wit~l the tuberculous 88:1”: a , 7.4% doubtful rea-ct ion, 8.” ..... d 9.25%82.6% of jea1ths caTtle were KAT Degative~ 13.04% posi-tive reaccion , and 4.4% dcubcf’u l. :reaction.