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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, January 1999, p. 66-72, Vol. 6, No. 1
1071-412X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Validation of the Indirect MAP1-B Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Diagnosis of Experimental Cowdria ruminantium Infection in Small Ruminants

Martin M. Mboloi,1,2 Cornelis P. J. Bekker,3 Cas Kruitwagen,4 Matthias Greiner,5 and Frans Jongejan1,*

Department of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine,1 Department of Herd Health and Reproduction,2 and Department of Bacteriology,3 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and Center for Biostatistics,4 Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Department of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany5

Received 3 March 1998/Returned for modification 27 July 1998/Accepted 5 October 1998

The major antigenic protein 1 fragment B (MAP1-B) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the diagnosis of Cowdria ruminantium infections was validated to determine cutoff values and evaluate its diagnostic performance with sheep and goat sera. Cowdria-infected populations consisted of 48 sheep and 44 goats, while the noninfected populations consisted of 64 sheep and 107 goats. Cutoff values were determined by two-graph receiver-operating characteristic (TG-ROC) curves. The cutoff value was set at 31 and 26.6% of the positive control reference samples for sheep and goat sera, respectively. The test's diagnostic performance was evaluated with measurements of the area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) of the ROC curves and by the valid range proportion (VRP). The AUCs were 0.978 for sheep sera and 0.989 for goat sera. The VRP for both sheep and goat sera was approximately 1.0. The intermediate range (IR), which defines results that are neither positive nor negative, was 0 for goat sera and 2.81 for sheep sera. In an ideal test, the AUC and VRP would be 1.0 and the IR would be 0. In this study these parameters were close to those of an ideal test. It is concluded that the MAP1-B ELISA is a useful test for the diagnosis of C. ruminantium infection in small ruminants.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.165, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands. Phone: 31-30-2532568. Fax: 31-30-2540784. E-mail: F.Jongejan{at}vet.uu.nl.

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, January 1999, p. 66-72, Vol. 6, No. 1
1071-412X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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