Monoclonal antibodies to avian paramyxovirus type 2
I Ozdemir1, P H Russell, J Collier
1Department of Microbiology, Royal Veterinary College, London, England.
Avian Pathology : Journal of the W.V.P.A
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
Three mouse monoclonal antibodies, raised against PMV2/chicken/California/ Yucaipa/56, which caused haemagglutination inhibition of the homologous virus were tested against 53 isolates which had been placed in the PMV2 serogroup using polyclonal antisera. The results allowed the viruses to be placed in four distinguishable groups consisting of 34, 4, 2 and 13 isolates.
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