1989 Volume 24 Issue 3 Pages 155-160
A panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAb) was used in an immunodot assay to investigate the antigenic relationships of a variety of aquatic birnaviruses from Asia. All of the Asian birnaviruses tested shared a serogroup-specific epitope with related viruses from North America and Europe. Six viruses from Taiwan were identical in MAb reaction patterns to European eel virus (EEV) and differed from the European Ab virus only by the presence of a single epitope. A single isolate from Thailand was identical to the European Sp virus. Ten viruses from Taiwan exhibited a variety of MAb reaction patterns that were distinct from those previously reported for the nine known serotypes of North America and Europe.
