Control
Validation
Chekit-FMD-3ABC has been validated with sera that was used for the validation of the original Brescia and Pirbright tests. The sera were from experiments as well as from the field, from well over 5.000 animals, cattle, sheep and swine. The sera involved all main Foot and mouth Disease virus types. They were supplied by the Instituto Zooprofilattica in Brescia (Italy), World Reference Laboratory Pirbright and the ID-Lelystad Institute from The Netherlands. On examination of these sera, the specificity and the sensitivity of the test were demonstrated to be more than 99%.
A full validation / registration report is available from Intervet International. The report has been sent to OIE and the European authorities and a number of national authorities.
Validation is a complicated issue as there are no international regulations for the validation of immuno-assays for the use in combination with marker-vaccines.
The information below gives information of some of the tests carried out for validation of the Chekit-FMD-3ABC test kit.
