Antibody levels determined by an appropriate technology (HI) in local cattle following anti-rinderpest campaign in Nigeria

Vaccine
N O Eghafona, M Abimiku

Abstract

The levels of antibodies against rinderpest measured by the haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test were titrated in 640 randomly collected sera. Out of 640 samples, 586 (91%) exhibited high titres of > 4 while 54 (9%) had low titres of < or = 4. Of the 400 samples collected in Zaria, 354 (88.5%) had high titres while 46 (11.5%) had low titres. In Funtua, 140 samples were collected with 132 (94.3%) recording high titres while 8 (5.7%) had low titres. All samples (100) collected from Shika had high titres (100%). Statistical evaluation with analysis of variance and Tukey's HSD tests showed no significant difference at the alpha = 0.05 level of significance between mean antibody titres in the areas under investigation; this showed the vaccines used during the anti-rinderpest campaign to be of good immunogenic quality.

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