Development and validation of a western immunoblot assay for detection of antibodies to porcine endogenous retrovirus

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 939-943

  Matthews, Aprille L ^a   Brown, Jennifer ^a   Switzer, William ^a   Folks, Thomas M ^a   Heneine, Walid ^a   Sandstrom, Paul A ^a,b  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EMBRYO; GIBBON LEUKEMIA VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY CELL; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SIMIAN SARCOMA VIRUS; SWINE; VALIDATION PROCESS; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EPITOPES; EVALUATION STUDIES; GAMMARETROVIRUS; IMMUNE SERA; SWINE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033561426     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199904150-00002     Document Type: Article

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