Volume 13, Number 4—April 2007
Dispatch
Bluetongue in Belgium, 2006
Jean-François Toussaint*, Corinne Sailleau†, Jan Mast*, Philippe Houdart‡, Guy Czaplicki§, Lien Demeestere*, Frank Vandenbussche*, Wesley van Dessel*, Nesya Goris*, Emmanuel Bréard†, Lotfi Bounaadja†, Etienne Thiry¶, Stephan Zientara†, and Kris De Clercq*
Table 2
Agreement between results of IDVET cELISA and RT-qPCR_S5 for bluetongue virus infection, Belgium, 2006*
| cELISA result | RT-qPCR result† | |
|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive | |
| Negative | 75 | 7 |
| Positive | 1 | 41 |
*cELISA, competititve ELISA; RT-qPCR,
reverse transcription–quantitative PCR.
†Samples with different results in cELISA and
RT-qPCR_S5 were retested with RT
qPCR_S1 (4). This latter test always
confirmed the result of the RT-qPCR_S5.
