Tuberculosis diagnosis
Improvement and optimization of techniques for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle and other animal species. Study of the immune response against tuberculosis.
Objectives:
- Sensitivity and specificity studies of the techniques used for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis.
- Studies of diagnosis interference in cellular and humoral immune response tests.
- Study of the immune response against tuberculosis.
- Development and set-up of new diagnostic techniques in cattle and other animal species.
- Cellular infection models to perform pathogenicity and virulence studies.
Start date: January 1st, 1997
Head of the research line:
de Juan Ferré, Lucía
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