title: Comparison of bovine cysticercosis prevalence detected by antigen ELISA and visual inspection in the North East of Spain.
abstract: A cross-sectional serological study on cattle less than 2 years old, using an antigen ELISA for the detection of bovine cysticercosis was carried out between November 2009 and February 2010 in 10 slaughterhouses from the Catalonia region (North-Eastern Spain). Circulating antigen was detected in 23 of 2073 animals, i.e. a sero-prevalence of 1.11% (CI95%: 0.76-1.75%). The determined sero-prevalence was about 50 times higher than the prevalence obtained by visual inspection within the same period: 19 positive animals of 90,891 slaughtered animals (0.02%) in the same slaughterhouses. None of the animals with positive result in the Ag-ELISA was detected by meat inspection.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), UAB-IRTA, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. alberto.allepuz@uab.es
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Allepuz
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gabriël
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dorny
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Napp
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jansen
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Vilar
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vives
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Picart
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ortuño
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Casal
mesh_terms: D000003:Abattoirs; D000818:Animals; D000947:Antigens, Helminth / Q000276:immunology*; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000662:veterinary*; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D041202:Taenia saginata / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000947:Antigens, Helminth