Inability of kaolin treatment to remove nonspecific inhibitors from equine serum for the hemagglutination inhibition test against equine H7N7 influenza virus

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 264-267

  Boliar, Saikat ^a   Stanislawek, Wlodek ^b   Chambers, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Investigation and Diagnostic Centre Wallaceville   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Equine influenza virus; HI test; Nonspecific inhibitors; Serum treatments

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUINE INFLUENZA VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 33745027891     PISSN: 10406387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104063870601800305     Document Type: Article

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