From:
swamp
Date: 2002-08-19 03:56:23 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Quick question - ADV testing
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20020818174114.00a97d88@mail>
At 05:50 PM 8/18/2002 +0100, Chris wrote:
>Hi All, according to Dr Deeney one of the strange things with ADV is
>that the antibodies will not be found on testing after the virus has
>been dormant for a while.
As I understand things, the immune system responds to some viruses by
producing antigen-specific lymphocytes and continuing to produce them even
after the virus is no longer present. With ADV this doesn't seem to be the
case. With rabies, VNA titers during Imrab-3 testing were roughly 10^6
baseline 1 year post inoculation and 10^5 baseline 2 years later. I assume,
like most cells, older lymphocytes and antibodies are being replaced by new
ones all the time, but then I'm no expert so take that assumption fwiw.
Rob