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This dissertation, Evaluation of Three Commercially Available Influenza A Type-specific Blocking Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assays for Seroepidemiological Studies of Influenza A Virus Infection in Pigs by Maying Tsemay, Tse, 謝美盈, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract:  The emergence of the pandemic H1N1 2009 virus of swine-origin and its transmission back to swine highlighted the need for global surveillance of swine influenza. Serology can help to address the epidemiological situation of influenza infection. Since typical serology tests such as hemagglutination inhibition or microneutralization assays are subtype and partially virus-lineage specific, it is important to select appropriate viral antigens for such studies. A poorly chosen panel of antigens will lead to underestimation of the seroprevalence. The choice of well-matched antigen is difficult if there is no prior virological surveillance in that area and even if there was virological surveillance data, transient infections may go undetected. Hence an universal influenza A type reactive serological test is needed. While such tests are available for poultry, there is little published data on the performance of these commercial influenza ELISA assays for serology on swine sera. In this study we evaluated 3 commercially available competitive ELISA assays, IDEXX? Influenza A Ab test, IDEXX? AI MultiS-Screen Ab Test and IDVet ID Screen? Influenza A Antibody Competition ELISA kit for detecting influenza type A reactive antibodies in swine. The virus antigens and the serum samples were obtained from a 14-year systematic abattoir-based virological and serological surveillance for swine influenza in southern China. The performance was evaluated by ROC curve and scatter plot, together with other statistical parameters including the Youden index to optimize the cut-off levels. Using the optimized cut-off levels, sensitivity and specificity of the IDEXX? Influenza A Ab test was 86% and 89% respectively; for IDEXX? AI MultiS-Screen Ab Test was 91% and 87% and for IDVet ID Screen? Influenza A was 95% and 79%, respectively. These findings help to provide different cut-off levels to maximize the sensitivity or specificity to suit different purposes. We found that the ELISA assay was useful in detecting serum samples that may be positive for influenza antibody but missed in the serology screening tests due to limitations in the chosen antigen panel. The ELISA assay maybe helpful in global swine influenza surveillance programs. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4827382 Subjects: Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assayH1N1 influenza - Serodiagnosis

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