title: Passive haemagglutination and complement fixation as diagnostic tests for contagious caprine pleuropneumonia caused by the F-38 strain of mycoplasma.
abstract: Passive haemagglutination and complement fixation tests were used to assess the antibody response of goats to the F-38 strain of mycoplasma. The passive haemagglutination test was found to have a positive correlation (r:0.89) with the complement fixation test in detection of antibody to strain F-38. Whereas passive haemagglutination was found more sensitive than the complement fixation test, it was less specific.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003168:Complement Fixation Tests / Q000662:veterinary*; D006041:Goats; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests / Q000662:veterinary*; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000276:immunology; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000662:veterinary*; D011002:Pleuropneumonia, Contagious / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D013045:Species Specificity