Assessing the impact of various tuberculin PPD brands on bovine tuberculosis diagnosis

Abstract Although several brands of tuberculin purified protein derivatives (PPDs) are available for diagnosing bovine tuberculosis (bTB), comparative studies to determine their diagnostic accuracy are infrequent. In Ecuador we compared two different PPD brands for bTB diagnosis using skin testing a...

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Main Authors: Gustavo Echeverría, Martín J. Zumárraga, Freddy Proaño-Pérez, Francisco Barceló Blasco, Jacobus H. de Waard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52089-1