Paula Ristow

Interference of tuberculosis on the performance of ELISAs used in the diagnosis of paratuberculosis in cattle (2007)

Lilenbaum,Walter, Ferreira,Rachel, Marassi,Carla Dray, Ristow,Paula, Oelemann,Walter Martins Roland, Fonseca,Leila De Souza

Forty-four cows from five herds infected with tuberculosis (TB) and without paratuberculosis (PTB), and 21 cows from a herd without either infection were studied. The cattle presented concordant...

The OmpA-Like Protein Loa22 Is Essential for Leptospiral Virulence (2007)

Paula Ristow, Pascale Bourhy, Claudio Pereira Figueira, Michel Huerre, Patrick Ave, ...

Pathogenic mechanisms of Leptospira interrogans, the causal agent of leptospirosis, remain largely unknown. This is mainly due to the lack of tools for genetic manipulations of pathogenic species. In...

Comparison of an in-house and a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for diagnosis of paratuberculosis (2007)

Marassi,Carla Dray, Gonzaga,Janete Da Silva, Ristow,Paula, Ferreira,Rachel, Fonseca,Leila Souza, Oelemann,Walter, ...

An in-house PPA-ELISA was compared to a commercial ELISA using a panel of 108 serum samples. In relation to commercial test, in-house assay presented 100% of sensitivity and 83.5% of specificity and...

Evaluation of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis faecal culture protocols and media (2006)

Ristow,Paula, Silva,Marlei Gomes, Fonseca,Leila De Souza, Lilenbaum,Walter

Paratuberculosis is an important enteritis of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map). The disease is officially considered exotic in Brazil, but recent serological...

Improvement of an in-house ELISA for bovine paratuberculosis serology in Brazil (2005)

Marassi,Carla Dray, Fonseca,Leila De Souza, Ristow,Paula, Ferreira,Rachel, Lilenbaum,Walter, Oelemann,Walter M.R.

Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) is a chronic enteritis in cattle caused by infection with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map). In Brazil, few reports describe the isolation of the...

The OmpA-Like Protein Loa22 Is Essential for Leptospiral Virulence

Ristow, Paula, Bourhy, Pascale, Da Cruz McBride, Flávia Weykamp, Figueira, Claudio Pereira, Huerre, Michel, Ave, Patrick, ...

Pathogenic mechanisms of Leptospira interrogans, the causal agent of leptospirosis, remain largely unknown. This is mainly due to the lack of tools for genetic manipulations of pathogenic species. In...