Comparative studies of Visna and Maedi viruses as antigens.
AUTOR(ES)
Mehta, P D
RESUMO
Rabbits were immunized with purified visna and maedi viruses, using complete Freund adjuvant, in footpad and intramuscular sites. The resulting antisera and their isolated immunoglobulin G (IgG) and M (IgM) classes were evaluated by tanned-cell passive hemagglutination (PHA), complement fixation, gel diffusion, and virus neutralization tests. Early, intermediate, and late bleedings showed increasingly high antibody activities by the PHA, complement fixation, and gel diffusion tests. The activities were associated mainly with the IgG class, although low, but significant activities were also found in the IgM class, as detected by PHA and complement fixation tests. Both antibody classes appeared at the same time during the course of immunization. The viruses, when tested against specific rabbit anti-visna and anti-maedi sera in gel diffusion tests, showed the presence of one to two precipitin lines depending upon the antibody concentration of the sera. A low amount of neutralizing activity was demonstrated in late bleedings but was not seen in earlier bleedings. The neutralizing activity against visna virus in immunized rabbit sera was found to be associated only with the IgG class. Visna and maedi viruses appeared to be immunologically identical when examined in gel diffusion tests and showed the same degree of inhibition when compared in passive hemagglutination inhibition test using antisera made specific for each virus.
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