Antigen-specific blastogenesis assays for duck hepatitis B virus using duck peripheral blood and splenic mononuclear cells

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 349-358

  Vickery, Karen ^a   Cossart, Yvonne ^a   Xingnian, Gu ^a   Dixon, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CMI; DHBV; Duck

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; MITOGENIC AGENT; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; MITOGENESIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN CELL; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DUCKS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS, DUCK; IMMUNOASSAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031413456     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2427(97)00075-5     Document Type: Article

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