Abstract |
An indirect sandwich ELISA is used by the World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease for the diagnosis of foot-and-mouth disease virus and swine vesicular disease virus. The potential for supplying ELISA 'kits' for diagnosis to other laboratories has been assessed by evaluating the reactivity of (a) immunoplates pre-coated with rabbit antisera to FMDV and SVDV and (b) freeze-dried diluted reference antisera. Immunoplates pre-coated using a sodium carbonate/ hydrogen carbonate buffer retained 100% sensitivity at temperatures of 4 degrees C and -20 degrees C over the experimental storage period of 140 days but elevated storage temperatures, 18-24 degrees C and 37 degrees C, produced declining reactivity. There was a marked improvement in retention of reactivity upon storage at 37 degrees C when employing an alternative coating buffer, ammonium hydrogen carbonate. The reactivity of the rabbit antisera diluted in sodium carbonate/ hydrogen carbonate solution and freeze-dried was high, as was the freeze-dried guinea pig antisera which had been diluted in each of the test solutions investigated. ELISA 'kits' for diagnosis, therefore, could be supplied using pre-coated immunoplates, with freeze-dried antiserum reagents or a combination of the two.
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Authors | N P Ferris, H Powell, A I Donaldson |
Journal | Journal of virological methods
(J Virol Methods)
1988 Mar-Apr
Vol. 19
Issue 3-4
Pg. 197-206
ISSN: 0166-0934 [Print] Netherlands |
PMID | 2836457
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Chemical References |
- Antibodies, Viral
- Indicators and Reagents
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Topics |
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral
- Aphthovirus
(immunology)
- Enterovirus Infections
(veterinary)
- Enteroviruses, Porcine
(immunology)
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease
(diagnosis)
- Freeze Drying
- Indicators and Reagents
- Swine
- Swine Vesicular Disease
(diagnosis)
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