Table 2.
Frequency of Bovine viral diarrhea virus in aborted bovine, ovine, caprine, buffalo and camel fetuses by evaluation of antigen capture ELISA and RT-PCR methods in Iran
| Species | No. of samples | Antigen capture ELISA (%) |
RT-PCR (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bovine | 620 | 111 (17.90) |
127 (20.48) |
| Ovine | 525 | 74 (14.09) |
74 (16.74) |
| Caprine | 442 | 71 (16.06) |
93 (17.71) |
| Buffalo | 372 | 63 (16.93) |
76 (20.43) |
| Camel | 214 | 27 (12.61) |
32 (14.95) |
| Total | 2173 | 347 (15.96) |
402 (18.49) |
Table show that the RT-PCR method has a higher accuracy than antigen capture ELISA to detection of BVD virus.