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A complement-fixation test for enzootic pneumonia of pigs using a complement dilution method.

Abstract
Complement-fixing antibody to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in the serums of pigs experimentally infected with enzootic pneumonia was demonstrated by comparing the haemolytic titre of guinea-pig complement titrated in the presence of heated test serum, M. hyopneumoniae antigen and unheated normal pig serum with the titre obtained when the antigen was omitted. The haemolytic titres against sensitised sheep erythrocytes were determined after a fixation period of 16 to 18 hours at 5 degrees C. When serums, collected at intervals of 3 to 7 days, from 43 pigs exposed to pigs experimentally infected with enzootic pneumonia were tested, 4.6 or more complement units were first fixed 14 to 44 (mean 23.4) days after contact began. Serums collected subsequently fixed from 4.6 to more than 31 complement units. This positive reaction usually persisted until the pigs were killed 4 to 35 weeks after contact began. Thirty-three had gross enzootic pneumonia lesions and 9 had lung lesions detected microscopically. Serum antibody was not detected in 73 weaned pigs aged 7 weeks in a pneumonia-free herd but serums from 9 of 15 unweaned piglets aged 9 to 14 days in the same herd, fixed between 3 and 7 complement units.
AuthorsJ R Etheridge, L C Lloyd
JournalAustralian veterinary journal (Aust Vet J) Vol. 56 Issue 3 Pg. 101-5 (Mar 1980) ISSN: 0005-0423 [Print] England
PMID7436902 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Antibodies, Bacterial
Topics
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Bacterial (analysis)
  • Complement Fixation Tests
  • Mycoplasma (immunology)
  • Mycoplasma Infections (diagnosis, veterinary)
  • Pneumonia (diagnosis, veterinary)
  • Swine
  • Swine Diseases (diagnosis)

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