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. 1978 Feb;80(1):31–42. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400053377

Dose-response relationships in a microneutralization test for foot-and-mouth disease viruses.

J C Booth, M M Rweyemamu, T W Pay
PMCID: PMC2129978  PMID: 202650

Abstract

Two-dimensional quantal microneutralization tests on foot-and-mouth disease viruses, in which neutralizing antibody activity was titrated against a serial range of virus doses, demonstrated a variety of dose-response curves some of which were rectilinear, others clearly curvilinear. Moreover, in the case of the non-linear responses obtained with some antisera, the shape of the curve was such that antibody titres recorded with doses of virus ranging from 10(3)-10(5) TCD50 were closely similar. Studies were carried out on the effect of varying the conditions of the test on the shape of the dose-response curve: significant differences were obtained after treatment of the antiserum-virus mixtures with anti-species globulin, and when the test was assayed in cells of differing susceptibility to infection.

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