Serological assays to discriminate rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus from Australian non-pathogenic rabbit calicivirus

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 345-354

  Liu, June ^a,b   Kerr, Peter J ^a   Wright, John D ^a,b   Strive, Tanja ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrimination; ELISA; RCV A1; RHDV; Serological diagnostics

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LAGOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LIKE AGENT; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUSTRALIA; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, RABBIT; LAGOVIRUS; RABBITS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RABBIT CALICIVIRUS; RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 84862798539     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.01.018     Document Type: Article

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