1. Development of an Indirect ELISA for Serological Diagnosis of Bovine herpesvirus 5.
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Dummer, Luana A., Araujo, Itauá L., Campos, Fabrício S., da Rosa, Matheus C., Finger, Paula F., de Oliveira, Patricia D., Conceição, Fabricio R., Fischer, Geferson, Roehe, Paulo M., and Leite, Fábio P. L.
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ENZYME-linked immunosorbent assay ,HERPESVIRUSES ,SEROLOGY ,VIRAL disease diagnosis ,PATHOGENIC microorganisms - Abstract
Bovine herpesviruses 1 and 5 (BoHV-1 and BoHV-5) are economically important pathogens, associated with a variety of clinical syndromes, including respiratory and genital disease, reproductive failure and meningoencephalitis. The standard serological assay to diagnose BoHV-1 and BoHV-5 infections is the virus neutralization test (VNT), a time consuming procedure that requires manipulation of infectious virus. In the present study a highly sensitive and specific single dilution indirect ELISA was developed using recombinant glycoprotein D from BoHV-5 as antigen (rgD5ELISA). Bovine serum samples (n = 450) were screened by VNT against BoHV-5a and by rgD5ELISA. Compared with the VNT, the rgD5ELISA demonstrated accuracy of 99.8%, with 100% sensitivity, 96.7% specificity and coefficient of agreement between the tests of 0.954. The rgD5ELISA described here shows excellent agreement with the VNT and is shown to be a simple, convenient, specific and highly sensitive virus-free assay for detection of serum antibodies to BoHV-5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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