Abstract

Abstract: Increasing infections with Monkeypox and Cowpox viruses pose a continuous and growing threat to human health. The standard method for detecting poxvirus neutralizing antibodies is the plaque-reduction neutralization test that is specific but also time-consuming and laborious. Therefore, a rapid and reliable method was developed to determine neutralizing antibody titers within twelve hours. The new assay measures viral mRNA transcription as a marker for actively replicating virus after incomplete neutralization using real-time PCR.

Details

Title
Rapid detection of anti-Vaccinia virus neutralizing antibodies
Author
Kramski, Marit; Drozd, Anna; Lichtfuss, Gregor F; Dabrowski, Piotr W; Ellerbrok, Heinz
Pages
139
Publication year
2011
Publication date
2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
ISSN
1743-422X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
902295903
Copyright
© 2011 Kramski et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.