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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, September 2002, p. 1010-1013, Vol. 9, No. 5
1071-412X/02/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.5.1010-1013.2002
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Kathy L. O'Reilly,* and Johannes Storz
Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Received 18 March 2002/ Returned for modification 17 May 2002/ Accepted 3 June 2002
The serum antibody responses of cattle with respiratory coronavirus infections during the pathogenesis of shipping fever pneumonia were analyzed with different bovine coronavirus antigens, including those from a wild-type respiratory bovine coronavirus (RBCV) strain (97TXSF-Lu 15-2) directly isolated from lung tissue from a fatally infected bovine, a wild-type enteropathogenic bovine coronavirus (EBCV) strain (Ly 138-3), and the highly cell culture-adapted, enteric prototype strain (EBCV L9-81). Infectivity-neutralizing (IN) and hemagglutinin-inhibiting (HAI) activities were tested. Sequential serum samples, collected during the onset of the respiratory coronavirus infection and at weekly intervals for 5 weeks thereafter, had significantly higher IN and HAI titers for antigens of RBCV strain 97TXSF-Lu15-2 than for the wild-type and the highly cell culture-adapted EBCV strains, with P values ranging from <0.0001 to 0.0483. The IN and HAI antibody responses against the two EBCV strains did not differ significantly, but the lowest titers were detected with EBCV strain L9-81.
Present address: Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.
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