Use of a surrogate chimeric virus to detect West Nile virus-neutralizing antibodies in avian and equine sera

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 134-135

  Komar, Nicholas ^a,c   Langevin, Stanley ^a   Monath, Thomas P ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Acambis   (United States)

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

^d Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOWL; HORSE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PLAQUE REDUCTION NEUTRALIZATION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PLAQUE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS WEST NILE VIRUS CHIMERA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PLAQUE ASSAY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 58149400793     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00220-08     Document Type: Article

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