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<blockquote data-quote="matthew" data-source="post: 7693128" data-attributes="member: 169"><p>If my research is correct, this animal had a skin test in NZ, and it’s owner is blaming that tuberculin antigen for its subsequent (two) positive tests. Cattle get the same antigen every 60 days while under restriction.</p><p></p><p>And skin tests for alpacas are fraught, and give miserable results. In the U.K. they’re not done in the neck, but in the thin soft skin behind the elbow. And with a 2mm tolerance, not 4mm as cattle on standard interpretation. So blood tests are favoured. But what blood tests?</p><p>VLA Weybridge have tested several and the alpaca society‘s favourite, Enferplex is the weakest of them all.</p><p></p><p>If the owner is really a vet, then living in Glos. she should have a more encompassing view of TB in general and TB in alpacas in particular.</p><p></p><p>And she should also be aware of another alpaca called Balthazar.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://bovinetb.blogspot.com/2009/11/alpacas-tb-inter-herd-spread.html[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="matthew, post: 7693128, member: 169"] If my research is correct, this animal had a skin test in NZ, and it’s owner is blaming that tuberculin antigen for its subsequent (two) positive tests. Cattle get the same antigen every 60 days while under restriction. And skin tests for alpacas are fraught, and give miserable results. In the U.K. they’re not done in the neck, but in the thin soft skin behind the elbow. And with a 2mm tolerance, not 4mm as cattle on standard interpretation. So blood tests are favoured. But what blood tests? VLA Weybridge have tested several and the alpaca society‘s favourite, Enferplex is the weakest of them all. If the owner is really a vet, then living in Glos. she should have a more encompassing view of TB in general and TB in alpacas in particular. And she should also be aware of another alpaca called Balthazar. [URL unfurl="true"]https://bovinetb.blogspot.com/2009/11/alpacas-tb-inter-herd-spread.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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