Acta Biomedica Scientifica (Apr 2012)

PECULIARITIES OF LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS OF EXPERIMENTAL BRUCELLOSIS CAUSED BY SAND L-FORMS OF CAUSATIVE AGENT

  • L. M. Mikhailov,
  • A. I. Kalinovskiy,
  • N. L. Barannikova,
  • M. YU. Shestopalov,
  • N. M. Andreevskaya,
  • V. A. Mikhailova,
  • V. I. Kuznetsov,
  • A. G. Atlas,
  • S. V. Balakhonov

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2(1)
pp. 131 – 134

Abstract

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Comparative evaluation, of bacteriological, serological and PCR diagnostic methods was resulted, at experimental brucellosis in guinea pigs infected, with. S- and. L-forms of the causative agent in different periods of the infection. It was shown that Brucella S-forms were isolated, during six months, L-forms - about one month, by a bacteriological method. Positive PCR results were observed about six months after S- and. L-form infection in animals. Positive slide agglutination, of guinea pig blood sera was revealed, till 12 months by a corpuscular diagnosticum with. S- and. L-forms of Brucella. Complex use of bacteriological, PCR and. serological methods for laboratory diagnostics of atypical brucellosis caused, by Brucella L-form allows to obtain more reliable information, about epizootological-epidemiological situation in non-manifested (non-clinical) infection foci.

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