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ID 692575 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain stockbreedingveterinary medicineBiology - Biotechnology
  • a person, animal, or organism that reacts to a stimulus, esp. under test or experimental conditions; spec. one showing an immune response to a specific antigen
  • the subject reacting positively to a foreign substance(as in a test for disease): tuberculous cattle are reactors to tuberculin
reactor
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  • If there are no reactors, the test is deemed negative. Otherwise, the flock is suspect and the measures specified in Chapter IV must be applied to it.

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