title: Antibody levels determined by an appropriate technology (HI) in local cattle following anti-rinderpest campaign in Nigeria.
abstract: The levels of antibodies against rinderpest measured by the haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test were titrated in 640 randomly collected sera. Out of 640 samples, 586 (91%) exhibited high titres of > 4 while 54 (9%) had low titres of < or = 4. Of the 400 samples collected in Zaria, 354 (88.5%) had high titres while 46 (11.5%) had low titres. In Funtua, 140 samples were collected with 132 (94.3%) recording high titres while 8 (5.7%) had low titres. All samples (100) collected from Shika had high titres (100%). Statistical evaluation with analysis of variance and Tukey's HSD tests showed no significant difference at the alpha = 0.05 level of significance between mean antibody titres in the areas under investigation; this showed the vaccines used during the anti-rinderpest campaign to be of good immunogenic quality.
authors: Department of Microbiology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
authors: N O
authors: NO
authors: Eghafona
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Abimiku
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D002417:Cattle; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests; D009549:Nigeria / Q000453:epidemiology; D012301:Rinderpest / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012302:Rinderpest virus / Q000276:immunology*; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D014765:Viral Vaccines