Immunofluorescence in the study of Marek's disease: detection of antibody.
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The indirect fluorescent-antibody (FA) test was applied to the detection of Marek's disease (MD) antigen in cell culture and antibody in the serum of birds. For the detection of antigen, sera were obtained from birds hyperimmunized with the JM strain of MD. MD antigen could be detected in the nucleus and in the cytoplasm of duck and chick embryo fibroblasts and in those of chick kidney cells infected with material known to contain the MD virus. Uninoculated cultures of chicken cells were always free of MD antigen. When chick kidney cells were infected with a stock cellular preparation of MD virus, infected cells could be detected after 24 hr with the FA test. At this time no cytopathological areas were seen by conventional light microscopy. By 7 days after infection, the same number of infected areas were detected by both methods, and the fluorescent areas coincided with the cytopathological areas. This indicates that the fluorescent areas and the areas with cytopathology are caused by the same agent. A straight-line relationship between the dilution of inoculum and the number of fluorescent or morphological foci obtained indicates that one infectious unit produced one fluorescent or morphological focus. In addition, this time sequence study confirmed the cell association of the virus and demonstrated the cell-to-cell spread of infection. Cell cultures inoculated with eight different isolates of MD were tested in all combinations with sera prepared against the same isolates. The antigens were indistinguishable from one another, indicating that either the strains are antigenically identical or there is a common antigen or contaminant in all of them so that they stained equally well. The FA test can detect MD antigen before cytopathological areas develop in cell culture; however, the small size of the area usually examined precludes its use in initial isolations in which only a small number of infectious units are present in the inoculum. MD-infected cells contain a heat-stable antigen similar to that found in herpes simplex-infected cells.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of virology
دوره 3 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1969