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Differentiating infected from vaccinated animals, and among virulent prototypes of reovirus.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Oct 2011
Goldenberg Dana, Lublin Avishai, Rosenbluth Ezra, Heller E Dan, Pitcovski Jacob
Abstract excerpt
Birds are most susceptible to infection by avian reovirus, genus Orthoreovirus family Reoviridae, at a young age. Although chicks are protected by antibodies transferred from vaccinated maternal flocks, due to the many variants in the field, the efficiency of the vaccines is limited. The level of antibodies against viruses is generally determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), using the whole virus...
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