title: [The detection of antibodies to the agent of malignant catarrhal fever in sheep and goat sera].
abstract: An epidemiologic study was undertaken by means of the SNT on three sets of sheep sera and one set of goat sera to evaluate for the occurrence of antibodies against strain WC11. Out of 791 sera of a sheep breeding organisation 57 samples (7.2%) showed positive titers. The positive samples originated from 24 farms (36.4%) out of 66 farms under test. Out of 118 sheep sera sent in from different parts of Austria 35 (29.7%) showed positive titers. 73 sheep sera out of a farm where MCF had clinically occurred were also tested. 20 samples (27.4%) scored positive. Also 40 goat sera (20.3%) out of 197 samples showed positive titers. The results are in accordance with publications from other countries. Special reference is made to goats as possible carriers and transmitters of MCF.
authors.affiliation: Bundesanstalt für Virusseuchenbekämpfung bei Haustieren, Wien-Hetzendorf.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schuller
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Silber
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D015511:Goat Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006041:Goats; D006564:Herpesviridae / Q000276:immunology*; D008304:Malignant Catarrh / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral
vernacular_title: Zum Nachweis von Antikörpern gegen den Erreger des bösartigen Katarrhalfiebers in Schaf- und Ziegenseren.