Detection of antibodies against a conserved capsid epitope as the basis of a novel universal serological test for foot-and-mouth disease
A. S. Asfor, N. Howe, S. Grazioli, S. Berryman, K. Parekh, G. Wilsden, A. B. Ludi, D. P. King, S. Parida, E. Brocchi, T. J. Tuthill
This paper identifies a conserved epitope in FMDV capsid protein VP2 and develops a universal ELISA to detect antibodies against all FMDV strains with high sensitivity and specificity.
bioRxiv · Oct 8, 2019Immunology