Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the detection of antibody to Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in the sera of livestock and wild vertebrates

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 547-558

  Burt, F J ^a   Swanepoel, R ^a   Braack, L E O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CONJUGATE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MAMMAL; NAIRO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; RABBIT; SHEEP; SOUTH AFRICA; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BIRDS; CATTLE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MAMMALS; PREVALENCE; RODENTIA; SHEEP;

EID: 0027753980     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800057277     Document Type: Article

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