Detection of bovine tuberculosis in Wasit city by the use of comparative intradermal tuberculin test and antigen rapid bovine TB Ab test

The study was conducted on twenty eight (28) cows in some villages in Wasit city / Iraq, scanned by using the comparative intradermal tuberculin test and antigen rapid bovine TB Ab test, to determine the morbidity rates of bovine tuberculosis (TB) and also to evaluate the efficiency of the two tests in the diagnosis of bovine TB.Postmortem examinations also were done after the slaughter of animals to confirm the TB lesions.Twenty-one (21) cows (75%) were positive in Inflation impact of food prices: Case of Serbia the tuberculin test, while (7) cows (25%) were negative.Twenty-two (22) cows (78,57%) gave positive results to the antigen rapid bovine TB Ab test, and (6) cows (21,43%) gave negative results.

It was noticed that most of the positive tuberculin animals were also positive to the antigen Micheliolide exerts effects in myeloproliferative neoplasms through inhibiting STAT3/5 phosphorylation via covalent binding to STAT3/5 proteins rapid bovine TB Ab test, due to the MP70 antigen present in the rapid test kit is a major component of M.bovis.On post-mortem examination nineteen (19) cows (67,85%) seen had the tubercle lesions in many organs like liver (19,05%), lung (14,28%), intestine (14,28%), mesenteric lymph nodes (19,05%), retropharyngeal lymph nodes (19,05%) and mediastinal lymph nodes (14,28%).It was concluded that the use of a combination of tuberculin test and antigen rapid bovine TB Ab test together gives better results in the diagnosis of bovine TB than the use of a single test alone.

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