Patent ID: 7731937
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. A cell-mediated immunological diagnostic method for paratuberculosis characterized by comprising: collecting blood of a subject animal, thereby providing collected blood; adding (a) an anti-interleukin 10 (IL-10) antibody and (b) a stimulus which induces cell-mediated immunological reaction against subsequent to said adding, measuring an amount of produced interferon-γ (IFNγ) in the blood; subsequent to said measuring, comparing between amounts of the produced interferon-γ (IFNγ) measured in the subject animal and that in a non-infected control animal; and distinguishing the subject animal from a non-infected control animal in a case where a statistically significant increase in amounts of produced interferon-γ (IFNγ) is measured in the subject animal.