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Table 1 Anti-BTV antibodies used for tissue confocal microscopy

From: Involvement of the skin during bluetongue virus infection and replication in the ruminant host

Antigen

Antibody*

Species

Anti-NS2 (raised against bacterial expressed/purified NS2)

ORAB01

polyclonal, rabbit (:1000)

Anti-NS2

(raised against bacterial expressed/purified NS2)

ORAB53

polyclonal, rabbit (1:1600)

Anti-NS2 (based on NS2 mAb[33] kindly provided by N.J.MacLachlan)

ORAB268

mouse ascites (1:1000)

Anti-VP7

(raised against gel purified VP7)

ORAB36

polyclonal, mouse (1:100)

Anti-Core (raised against purified BTV core particles)

ORAB06

polyclonal, guinea pig (1:1000)

  1. *All antibodies are stored in the Orbi Virus Antibody Reference (ORAB) collection of the Vector-borne-viral Diseases Programme at IAH Pirbright.