Development and evaluation of serological assays for detection of Hantaan virus-specific antibodies in human sera using yeast-expressed nucleocapsid protein

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 89-95

  Petraityte, Rasa ^a   Yang, Hua ^b   Hunjan, Rashpal ^c   Ražanskiene, Aušra ^a   Dhanilall, Pravesh ^c   Ulrich, Rainer G ^d   Sasnauskas, Kestutis ^a   Jin, Li ^c  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b The Sixth People's Hospital of Shenyang City   (China)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capture ELISA; Hantaan virus; Indirect ELISA; Nucleocapsid protein

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; YEAST;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHINA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HANTAAN VIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

HANTAAN VIRUS;

EID: 39149115399     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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