Patent ID: 6806086
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: A61K,A61P,C07K,C12N,C12Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A diagnostic kit for detecting an antibody which specifically recognizes Lelystad Agent in a biological sample, said diagnostic kit comprisingan antigen selected from the group consisting of virus, protein, polypeptide, and peptide, said antigen immunoreactive with serum antibodies of a sow, said serum antibodies obtained by: a) intranasally inoculating a specific pathogen free sow with two milliliters of a virus essentially corresponding to the virus identified as deposit number I-1102, deposited Jun. 5, 1991 with the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (at passage level 3, titer 104.8 TCID50/milliliter); and further comprising b) collecting serum antibodies from the thus inoculated sow after 25 to 33 days, and means for detecting an antibody.