| Spotlight on Rabies Research One of the major impediments to modern rabies research has been the lack of a reliable serologic assay to probe bat immunologic responses. Researchers have traditionally diagnosed rabies in bats using viral neutralization assays. Our new anti-bat monoclonal antibody specifically binds the light chain of all bat immunoglobulin types. This antibody is therefore able to distinguish between rabies infected versus non-infected bats in an assay commonly used to detect rabies, but never before used in bats. |
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