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Oligopeptide-based enzyme immunoassay for ovine lentivirus antibody detection
1U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Clay Center, Nebraska 68933.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|July 1, 1994
Abstract:
Ovine progressive pneumonia virus (OPPV) is a lentivirus which causes a progressive disease in sheep. Immunodominant epitopes have been identified in the envelope gp40 glycoprotein. Synthetic peptides representing these regions are able to detect the presence of OPPV antibodies in 96% of infected sheep.