METHOD FOR PREDICTING LEUKOSIS IN CATTLE Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: veterinary science.

SUBSTANCE: one should detect positively reacting animals in RIA to conduct additional serological RIA testing, moreover, repeated serological testing in sero-negative animals should be carried out after provocation of immune response due to three-fold injection of inactivated vaccine against cattle leucosis at the dosage of 2 ml at 14-d-long interval and at obtaining positive result in RIA one should diagnose an animal to be infected one. The innovation accelerates detection of animals being virus-carriers, shortens leucosis-recovery period in farms and enables to decrease financial expenditures for recovery.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of diagnostics.

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