Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Ramya K, Keerthika G, Kanimozhi TM, L Gunaseelan and Sukumar K

Abstract:
The present study was conducted to detect tuberculosis at an earlier stage in the apparently healthy cattle and buffaloes in and around Namakkal using a rapid antibody detection kit. The serum samples collected from the animals were tested using a point of care diagnostic kit employing a immunochromatographic or lateral flow technology. Out of the eighty-three samples tested, only three cattle serum sample were reactive suggestive of the exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) and the remaining eighty serum samples were non-reactive in Kit-I. Hence, the results of the test imply that these rapid diagnostic kits could be uses as a rapid, cost effective, easy to perform diagnostic method for the preliminary screening of the domestic and wild animals for tuberculosis infection in the field conditions before proceeding for the labor intensive procedures like skin testing or other diagnostic methods which are expensive, require technically qualified personnel to perform the assays and time consuming.