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Anti-BLV antibodies prevalence in dairy and beef cattle. Serum samples from dairy cattle (n = 736) and beef cattle (n = 451) were evaluated in duplicates by the in house iELISA, using 50 ng/well of BLVp24r in Polysorp® microplates and a 1:100 sera dilution. Samples with a OD > 0.320 were considered positive.
| Cattle type | n | Result |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | ||
| Dairy | 736 | 229 (31.1%) | 507 (68.9%) |
| Beef | 451 | 43 (9.5%) | 408 (90.5%) |
| Total | 1187 | 272 (22.9%) | 915 (77.1%) |
