Serological diagnosis of feline coronavirus infection by immunochromatographic test

Methods Mol Biol. 2015:1282:33-9. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2438-7_3.

Abstract

The immunochromatographic assay (ICA) is a simple antibody-antigen detection method, the results of which can be rapidly obtained at a low cost. We designed an ICA to detect anti-feline coronavirus (FCoV) antibodies. A colloidal gold-labeled recombinant FCoV nucleocapsid protein (rNP) is used as a conjugate. The Protein A and affinity-purified cat anti-FCoV IgG are blotted on the test line and the control line, respectively, of the nitrocellulose membrane. The specific detection of anti-FCoV antibodies was possible in all heparin-anticoagulated plasma, serum, whole blood, and ascitic fluid samples from anti-FCoV antibody positive cats, and nonspecific reaction was not noted in samples from anti-FCoV antibody negative cats.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Immobilized / chemistry
  • Antibodies, Viral / blood*
  • Cats
  • Chromatography, Affinity
  • Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteins
  • Coronavirus, Feline / immunology*
  • Feline Infectious Peritonitis / blood
  • Feline Infectious Peritonitis / diagnosis*
  • Feline Infectious Peritonitis / virology
  • Nucleocapsid Proteins / immunology

Substances

  • Antibodies, Immobilized
  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteins
  • Nucleocapsid Proteins