CONTENTS

Introduction 401

Diagnostic Techniques 402

Precipitin and Agglutination Tests 402

Passive Hemagglutination Test 402

Hemagglutination Inhibition Test 403

Neutralization Test 403

Complement Fixation Test 403

Fluorescent Antibody Tests 404

Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent

Assay (ELISA) 404

Gel Electrophoresis 406

Western Blot Test 406

Immunohistochemistry 406

Polymerase Chain Reaction 406

Quantitative Real-time Polymerase

Chain Reaction 407

DNA Sequencing 407

Restriction Fragment

Length Polymorphism 407

Literature Cited 407