Detection of cold-adapted vaccine-strain influenza virus using two commercial assays

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 400-404

  Adam, E N ^b   Morley, P S ^a   Chmielewski, K E ^a   Carman, J ^a   Gonzales, G ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen detection; Equine; Horse; Influenza virus; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SECRETION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NOSE MUCOSA; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; SECRETION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MALE; NASAL MUCOSA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 0036635549     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/042516402776249218     Document Type: Article

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