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. 1981 Mar 1;22(1):32–38. doi: 10.1186/BF03547203

Detection of Porcine Rotavirus by EM, ELISA and CIET

Påvisning af porcin rotavirus ved hjælp af EM, ELISA og CIET

Jon Askaa 1,✉, Buchardt Bloch 1
PMCID: PMC8300443  PMID: 6266239

Abstract

Feces samples from swine-herds with severe problems of neonatal diarrhoea, 3 weeks scours or early weaning diarrhoea were examined for porcine rotavirus using three techniques: EM, ELISA and CIET. Infection with rotavirus was found in about one third of the feces samples, representing more than half of the examined swine-herds. EM and ELISA revealed nearly all the samples found to be positive, while CIET as used here detected only half of them.

Keywords: porcine rotavirus, EM, GIET, ELISA, diarrhoea

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This work was supported by the Danish Agricultural and Veterinary Research Council.

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