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2012
E. M. Santos, Cardoso, R., Souza, G. R. L., Goulart, L. R., Heinemann, M. B., Leite, R. C., and Reis, J. K. P., Selection of peptides for serological detection of equine infectious anemia, vol. 11, pp. 2182-2199, 2012.
Alvarez I, Gutierrez G, Ostlund E, Barrandeguy M, et al. (2007a). Western blot assay using recombinant p26 antigen for detection of equine infectious anemia virus-specific antibodies. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. 14: 1646-1648. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/CVI.00293-07 PMid:17959820 PMCid:2168377   Alvarez I, Gutierrez G, Vissani A, Rodriguez S, et al. (2007b). Standardization and validation of an agar gel immunodiffusion test for the diagnosis of equine infectious anemia using a recombinant p26 antigen. Vet. Microbiol. 121: 344-351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.01.007 PMid:17292568   Belshan M, Baccam P, Oaks JL, Sponseller BA, et al. (2001). Genetic and biological variation in equine infectious anemia virus Rev correlates with variable stages of clinical disease in an experimentally infected pony. Virology 279: 185-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/viro.2000.0696 PMid:11145901   BLAST. Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. Available at [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/]. 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Specificity of serum neutralizing antibodies induced by transient immune suppression of inapparent carrier ponies infected with a neutralization-resistant equine infectious anemia virus envelope strain. J. Gen. Virol. 86: 139-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.80374-0 PMid:15604441   Johnson M, Rommel F and Mone J (1998). Development of a syncytia inhibition assay for the detection of antibodies to bovine leukemia virus in naturally infected cattle; comparison with Western blot and agar gel immunodiffusion. J. Virol. Methods 70: 177-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-0934(97)00186-9   Leong YH, Devi S and Lin TK (2008). Mimotopes of heat shock proteins of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi identified from phage-displayed peptide library. J. Infect. Dev. Ctries. 2: 313-323.   Leroux C, Craigo JK, Issel CJ and Montelaro RC (2001). Equine infectious anemia virus genomic evolution in progressor and nonprogressor ponies. J. 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Cross reaction of recombinant equine infectious anemia virus antigen to heterologous strains and application for serological survey among horses in the field. Microbiol. Immunol. 45: 45-50. PMid:11270606   Shen T, Liang H, Tong X, Fan X, et al. (2006). Amino acid mutations of the infectious clone from Chinese EIAV attenuated vaccine resulted in reversion of virulence. Vaccine 24: 738-749. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.08.084 PMid:16202485   Smith GP and Scott JK (1993). Libraries of peptides and proteins displayed on filamentous phage. Methods Enzymol. 217: 228-257. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0076-6879(93)17065-D   Smith GP and Petrenko VA (1997). Phage display. Chem. Rev. 97: 391-410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr960065d PMid:11848876   Soutullo A, Verwimp V, Riveros M, Pauli R, et al. (2001). Design and validation of an ELISA for equine infectious anemia (EIA) diagnosis using synthetic peptides. Vet. 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2010
E. M. Santos, Paula, J. F. R., Motta, P. M. C., Heinemann, M. B., Leite, R. C., Haddad, J. P. A., Del Puerto, H. L., and Reis, J. K. P., Comparison of three methods of DNA extraction from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and lung fragments of equines, vol. 9. pp. 1591-1598, 2010.
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A. M. Souza, Reis, J. K. P., Assis, R. A., Horta, C. C., Siqueira, F. F., Facchin, S., Alvarenga, E. R., Castro, C. S., Salvarani, F. M., Silva, R. O. S., Pires, P. S., Contigli, C., Lobato, F. C. F., and Kalapothakis, E., Molecular cloning and expression of epsilon toxin from Clostridium perfringens type D and tests of animal immunization, vol. 9, pp. 266-276, 2010.
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