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Tuberculosis is a serious zoonotic disease causing approximately 10 million new cases worldwide every year.The emergence of various drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is currently an important challenge intuberculosispre-vention and control,and an urgent need exists to develop new anti-tuberculosis drugs to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis and shorten the treatment time.The discovery of drug targets is a bottleneck inthe development of new anti-tuberculosis drugs.At present,the widely reported drug targets for tuberculosis include primarily new targets related to the biosynthesis of Mycobac-terium tuberculosis components and immune metabolic pathways.In addition,host-directed therapiestargeting the host immune system have become a research hotspot in recent years.Adjuvant host-directed therapies can enhance the therapeutic effect of tuberculosis and shorten treatment times by affecting granuloma formation,autophagy,host immune metabolism and the intra-cellular killing mechanism,as well as regulating pulmonary inflammation.The discovery of these new targets provides new ide-as for the future development of safe and effective new anti-tuberculosis drugs.
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This study was aimed to develop a sandwich ELISA kit for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis.And it was applied and evaluated in the quarantine of bovine tuberculosis.We established a bovine IFN-γ release method in vitro and developing three batches of kits.The sensitivity,repeatability and retention period of the kit were all evaluated.Totally 961 serum samples were tested using the developed sandwich ELISA kit tuberculin skin test and a commercial ELISA kit.Our results showed that the detection limit of this ELISA was 8.21 mg/mL.The repeatability tests showed good reproducibility in the intraassay and inter-assay.At the same time,the retention period of the kit was more than 12 months.Compared with the tuberculin skin test,the positive coincidence rate was 70.59% and the negative coincidence rate was 99.20%,while the total coincidence rate was 98.44%.And compared with the BOVIGAMTM kit,the positive coincidence rate was 91.30% and the negative coincidence rate was 99.78%,while the total coincidence rate reached 99.58%.At the same time,the sensitivity and specificity of the sandwich kit were 85.00% and 100%,respectively.We established a bovine IFN-γ release method in vitro and developing corresponding kits successfully have a good application prospect.