title: Evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of two diagnostic tests for antibodies to pseudorabies virus glycoprotein X.
abstract: The diagnostic performance of 2 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (gX-T, gX-H) for antibodies to pseudorabies virus (PRV) glycoprotein X (gX) were evaluated using 311 serum samples from a nonvaccinated quarantined herd. When the standardized virus neutralization (VN) test, which uses the Shope strain (VN Shope), was used as the comparative diagnostic standard, the gX-T test had a 7% false-negative rate and a 52% false-positive rate, and the gX-H test had a 19% false-negative rate and a 19% false-positive rate. When the VN test with a Bartha recombinant strain (VN Bartha gIIIKa) was used as the diagnostic standard, the gX-T test had a 9% false-negative rate and a 26% false-positive rate, and the gX-H test had a 24% false-negative rate and a 11% false-positive rate. Thus, the gX-T test was more sensitive and the gX-H test was more specific. Additional diagnostic tests on 79 serum samples from a noninfected herd did not produce false positives for the gX-H test, but there was an 8% false-positive rate for the gX-T test. Previous studies from our laboratory have demonstrated that VN Bartha gIIIKa has higher sensitivity than VN Shope, without losing specificity, and thus is a better comparative diagnostic standard. When adding a suspect range to the gX-T test, using the same criteria as the suspect range for the gX-H test, the false-positive rate of the gX-T test was reduced to 5% when evaluated versus VN Bartha gIIIKa in the infected herd and to 1% for the PRV-negative herd.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Weigel
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scherba
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Hahn
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Lehman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D011558:Herpesvirus 1, Suid / Q000276:immunology*; D011557:Pseudorabies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; C042966:pseudorabies virus glycoproteins