Detection of the antibody to lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in sera of laboratory rodents infected with viruses of laboratory and newly isolated strains by ELISA using purified recombinant nucleoprotein

Experimental Animals

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-365

  Takimoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Taharaguchi, Motoko ^a   Morikawa, Shigeru ^a   Ike, Fumio ^b   Yamada, Yasuko K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; ELISA; Laboratory rodent; Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus; Recombinant nucleoprotein

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UREA; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GERBIL; HAMSTER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MALE; MASTOMYS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; C3H MOUSE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MURINAE; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; GERBILLINAE; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BACULOVIRIDAE; CRICETINAE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED ICR; MURINAE; NUCLEOPROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RODENTIA; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 51449113461     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.57.357     Document Type: Article

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