Specific Virology Flashcards
(110 cards)
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Arteriviridae
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+ssRNA, enveloped, transmission( sexual, aerogen, contact)
Equine arteritis virus - arteritis, oedema, abortion
Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome - abortion, infertility, respiratory signs
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Orthomyxoviridae
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Genera - Influenza (A,B,C), Thogotovirus, Isavirus
-ssRNA, segmented, enveloped
Influenza A - in pig, horse, birds, humans
Influenza B,C - HUman, seal, dog
Thogotovirus - Arbovirusin Asia
Isavirus - Salmon
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Polyomavirus causes latent infections
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FALSE
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Adenovirus causes enteritis in mammals/birds.
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FALSE (Does cause pneumoenteritis)
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Describe the morphology of the Adenovirus
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Linear dsDNA virus with an icosahedral capsid, nonenveloped and replicates in the nucleus.
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What type of virus is Varicellovirus?
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Herpesvirus (alphaherpesvirus)
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- Pox Virus causes skin lesions
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TRUE
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- Capripox causes skin lesions.
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TRUE
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- What type of virus is Hepadnaviridae?
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DNA
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- Describe the morphology of Circoviridae
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Circular dsDNA virus with an icosahedral capsid, nonenveloped and replicates in the nucleus.
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- Parvo causes enteritis.
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True
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- How is the transmission of Birnaviridae?
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Contact
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- Rotavirus causes neonatal enteritis.
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True
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- What is the host of Teschovirus?
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Pig
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- What does Parechovirus cause?
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Enteritis
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- Avastrovirus causes what in chickens?
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Nephritis (inflammation of the kidney)
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- Dicistroviridae is a virus of honey bees.
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True
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- How is Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease transmitted?
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By contact (direct or by fomites)
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- Border Disease causes abortion in sheep.
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TRUE
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- Arteriviridae affects stallions.
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True
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- The Influenza host (avian).
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Wild water birds
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- The surface protein of Influenza?
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Haemaglutinin
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- Parainfluenza virus 3 infects?
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Cattle and Sheep – “Shipping Fever”
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- What type of virus is Canine Distemper Virus?
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Morbillivirus (Paramyxoviridae)
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23. Cowpox/pseudopox is zoonotic.
True
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24. Herpes virus is an arbovirus (transmitted by insects).
FALSE
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25. What does Herpesvirus cause?
Lesions (usually oral or genital)
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26. How is Ephemerovirus transmitted?
By mosquitoes (arthropod bites)
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27. Nairovirus is an arthropod virus.
TRUE
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28. What lesions does a Retrovirus cause?
Lesions in skin and brain (carcoma, carcinoma, leukemia tumours)
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29. TSE (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) affects mainly cattle/mink/cats.
TRUE
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30. Prions are resistant to proteases.
TRUE
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31. Name of TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) in sheep.
Scrapie
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32. African Horse Sickness is caused by which virus?
Orbivirus (Sedoreovirinae
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33. Genera of the Picornaviridae are?
Entero-, Aptho-, Erbo-, Avihepato-, Hepato-, Cardio-, Tescho-, Tremo-, Parecho-, Kobu-.
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34. Alphaviruses:
a) transmitted by ticks
b) may be zoonotic
c) only present in America
d) no cross reaction.
b) May be zoonotic
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35. Torovirus can cause?
Berne Virus (foal gastroenteritis), Breda Virus (calf gastroenteritis), Chicken , swine and human gastroenteritis.
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36. Reservoir host of Mammastrovirus?
Humans, mammals and vertebrates.
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37. Human and bovine pathogen viruses are found in the:
a) Alpha,
b) Beta,
c) Gamma?
a)Alpha
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38. Prion pathogens do not contain?
Nucleic acid (proteins)
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39. Animals are susceptible to :
a) Mumps,
b) Measles,
c) Influenza 1?
c)Influenza 1
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40. Affinity Chromatography uses?
Viruses adsorb to specific antibodies, rinsing to remove impurities and then elution with buffer.
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41. Lesions caused by Pox on CAM embryonic egg are called?
Pock lesions
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42. Which disease was recently eradicated from earth?
Small pox and rinderpest
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43. Kidney lesions in chicken are caused by?
Avastrovirus
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44. How did virus get its name?
A scientist used a filter whose pores were smaller than the bacteria so the bacteria was not filtered, but following further investigation, it was found that the filtrate contained a smaller form of infectious agent. This agent multiplies only in dividing cells and it was made of particles – it was called contagium vivum fluidum (soluble living germ) and later was simply called virus.
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45. Prions cause what in sheep?
Scrapie
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46. How are airborne viruses contracted?
Breathed in through the respiratory tract
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47. The host of Hantavirus?
Rodents
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48. What is the given name for Goose Disease?
Goose Parvovirus (Derzsy’s Disease)
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49. Adeno and Orthomyxo viruses - name the disease for calves.
Pneumoenteritis.
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50. What does Aujesky Disease cause in Canines?
Lethal CNS Disease, like rabies.
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51. Immunosuppression: True/False:
Leukemia
Lymphocytes
Enterocytes
Encephalomyelitis
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Leukemia TRUE
Lymphocytes FALSE
Enterocytes TRUE
Encephalomyelitis TRUE
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52. What virus is propagated in the Chorioallantoin?
Pox and Herpesvirus
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53. What is eclipse?
Eclipse is the expression of genetic information. It is the step in virus multiplication involving transcription, translation and replication.
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54. What is it called when a virus enters the blood?
Viremia
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55. Genetic part of a virion?
DNA/RNA
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56. The role of Rdrp in Retrovirus?
(RNA Dependent RNA Polymerase) Replication of RNA.
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57. How do bacteriophages get into the host cell?
Penetration.
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58. What is a prion?
A prion is a small protein capable of infecting a cell and causing itself to replicate even though it contains no nucleic acid.
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59. Virions always contain lipids.
FALSE
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60. Virions with quasihelical nucleocapsids are enveloped.
TRUE
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61. Virions with quasihelical capsids are never enveloped.
FALSE
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62. Pleomorphic capsids may not have an envelope.
TRUE
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63. Please mark which is true:
a) Mutations are more frequent in cellular organisms than in viruses
b) The effects of mutations are always advantageous for viruses
c) Mutation may alter the host specificity of a virus
d) Mutant viruses cannot be used as vaccine strains.
c) Mutation may alter the host specificity of a virus
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64. How do we call the process when the antigenic structure of a virus suddenly changes due to reassortment?
Antigenic shift.
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65. Polyomaviruses can cause persistent infections in kidney cells.
TRUE
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66. Papillomaviruses often cause encephalitis and diarrhoea in swine.
FALSE
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67. Serological cross-reactions may occur between adenovirus species within the same genus.
TRUE
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68. Atadenoviruses may cause disease in birds.
TRUE
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69. Please mark the correct answer: Aujesky’s Disease is caused by the:
a) Suid herpesvirus type 1
b) Canid herpesvirus type 2
c) Porcine Parvovirus type 1
d) Porcine circovirus type 2
a) Suid herpesvirus type 1
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70. Which virus family contains viruses with positive sense, single-stranded RNA genome and helical capsid?
Coronaviridae.
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71. What virus causes abortions?
Varicellovirus (Aujesky’s Disease, IBR, Equine rhinopneumonitis), Arteritis virus (PRRS, Equine Arteritis Virus), Orbivirus (Blue Tongue, Ibraki Disease, African Horse Sickness), Phlebovirus & Nairovirus of Bunyaviridae (Rift Valley Fever, Nairobi Sheep Fever)
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72. How does the enveloped virus enter the cell?
Membrane fusion
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73. Viruses can only propagate in living cells.
TRUE
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74. What disease is caused in hens by astrovirus?
Chicken Astrovirus (“White Chicks” Condition)
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75. Which virus family causes haemorrhage?
Caliciviridae (RHD), parvoviridae (Aleutian Mink Disease), circoviridae (Porcine circovirus), asfivirus (ASF), orbivirus (African Horse Sickness, Epizootic Haemorrhagic Disease), nairovirus (Crimean-congo haemorrhagic Fever), Arenaviridae, paramyxovirus (Newcastle Disease), Filovirus (Ebola).
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76. Contact Inhibition:
When the cytoplasmic membrane edges of growing cells touches each other causing an inhibition to growth (forms a primary monolayer of cells)
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77. Disease in hens caused by the Atadenovirus?
Egg Drop Syndrome
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78. What do you call the infective part of the virus?
Virion
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79. Where do RNA viruses multiply?
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In the cytoplasm
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80. Which virus families cause skin lesions?
Papillomaviridae, polyomaviridae, (Poxviridae cause pock lesions)
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81. How to investigate virus neutralisation test?
Use blocking antibodies that will adsorb to the receptors of the cell so virus cant adsorb to the cell too.
- Constant virus varying serum dilution: Serial 2fold serum solution, add virus, incubate (antibodies will neutralise the virus), inoculate cell cultures, incubate, CPEs.
- Constant serum varying virus dilution: 2 Serial 10fold virus dilutions, add +and-serum, incubate, inoculate cell cultures, incubate, CPEs.
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82. Monoclonal antibodies:
Antibodies which are the same as they were produced by identical immune cells who were all clones of a unique parent cell.
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83. What proteins are found in prions?
Cellular prion protein, Infectious prion protein.
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84. What is the genetic part of the virion?
The nucleic acid (DNA/RNA)
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85. What is the family of the Distemper viruses?
Paramyxoviridae
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86. Haemagglutination:
This is the clumping together of red blood cells. Tests include: Haemagglutination test, haemagglutination inhibition test.
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87. Concentration of a virus sample?
Precipitation, adsorption, dialysis, ultrafiltration, pelletisation.
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88. Virus titer:
- Infective titer: the highest dilution of the virus in which 50% CPEs occur.
- Haemagglutination titer: the highest dilution of the virus in which haemagglutination has not yet occurred.
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89. Restriction nucleases:
cleave proteins at specific DNA sequences.
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90. Cells removed from a monoculture:
Can then be used in a subculture and propagated further.
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91. What does Aujesky’s Disease do in Canines?
Lethal CNS effects (like rabies)
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92. What type of sample is required for Ataxia in a horse?
Conjunctival and nasal swabs, liquor cerebrospinalis, EDTA blood. (Ataxia is a neurological sign consisting of a lack of coordinating movements
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93. Propagation of African Swine Fever:
experimental infection of living animals
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94. Acridin Orange Test:
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Tests for the presence of either ss/ds DNA/RNA.
-Green fluorescence when bound to dsDNA.
–Red fluorescence when bound to ssDNA or RNA
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95. Does a greenish-yellow colour mean a doublestranded virus?
Yes
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96. Vaccines:
Live (attenuated, virulent, heterotypic, virus-vectored), inactivated, subunit, anti-idiotype.
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97. Active Immunity:
Stimulation of an immune response by the body by a specific antigen (injecting a weaker live virus into the body so that the body itself must produce antibodies against the viral antigens), preventative method, long term immunity.
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98. Parvo in the environment:
spread through faecal matter, but due to its very strong resistance it can survive on surfaces and be spread via contact with those surfaces.
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99. Describe the Orthobunyavirus:
circular ssRNA with segmented genome, enveloped, - with helical capsid, viruses: Akabane disease and Schmallenburg virus of Ruminants.
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Prions in sheep:
Prions are agents of Transmissible Spongioform Encephalosis and cause Scrapie in sheep.
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Tick Vectors:
Colorado tick fever, Lyme disease, hepatazoonosis.
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Reservoir host of Mamarenavirus?
Pet hamsters, mice (rodents)
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Role of VtRt in Hepadnaviridae:
replication (Viral transcriptase Reverse transcriptase)
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On which part of the virus is the lipid found?
Envelope.
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PCR-Colour:
Green-dsDNA, Red-ssDNA/RNA
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Binary?:
induces DNA? Binary Vectors are shuttle vectors as they are able to replicate in multiple hosts.
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What is the method of a hemolysis test using sheep blood?
- Haemagglutination Titre: serial 2fold dilution, add washed RBCs of appropriate species, incubate->titer is the highest dilution of virus where there is no haemagglutination as of yet.
- Haemagglutination inhibition: serial 2fold dilution of serum sample, add 4-8HA units of virus, incubate, add washed RBCs->titer is the highest dilution where there is no HA.
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Amino Acid sequence of haemagluttinating protease cleavage site of Influenza A may cause?
Will cleave the Hemaglutinin of the virus-this must be cleaved by cellular proteases to be active as a fusion protein and cause infection.
