Evaluation of “Indigenous Absorbed ELISA Kit” for the Estimation of Seroprevalence of Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis Antibodies in Human Beings in North India

Table 1

Screening of serum samples collected from IBD patients by indigenous “absorbed ELISA kit.”

Human subjects		Diagnostic center	Samples	Positives
	CD patients	AIIMS, New Delhi	5	4 (80.0%)
IBD patients	UC patients	Asopha Hospital and Research Center, Agra	22	1 (4.5%)
	Total		27	5 (18.5%)
Healthy human subjects∗		Astha pathology, Agra	13	2 (15.3%)
Grand total			40	7 (17.5%)

∗Healthy blood donors.