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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2003
Eiichi Momotani, Tsukuba, JP;
Yasuyuki Mori, Tsukuba, JP;
Hirokazu Hikono, Tsukuba, JP;
Joram Josephat Buza, Tsukuba, JP;
Eiichi Momotani, Tsukuba, JP;
Yasuyuki Mori, Tsukuba, JP;
Hirokazu Hikono, Tsukuba, JP;
Joram Josephat Buza, Tsukuba, JP;
Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Bio-Oriented Research Organization, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is intended to provide a diagnostic method forby which an animal infected withsubsp.can be diagnosed at a high sensitivity in the sub-clinical infection stage before the specific antibody level begins to increase and a large number of specimens can be treated. The present invention provides: a diagnostic method forcharacterized by collecting the blood of a subject animal, adding an anti-IL-10 antibody and asubsp.antigen to the collected blood followed by culture, and then measuring the amount of produced IFNγ in the blood; a diagnostic method forcharacterized in that the amount of produced IFNγ in blood is measured by the IFNγ ELISA method; and a diagnostic method for mycobacterial infection characterized by collecting the blood of a subject animal, adding an anti-IL-10 antibody and a mycobacterial antigen to the collected blood followed by culture, and then measuring the amount of produced IFNγ in the blood.