Precipitation reactions with Newcastle disease virus.

Acid precipitated and detergent treated Newcastle disease virus (NDV) antigen was prepared and characterised using the agar gel precipitation (AGP) test. The detergent treated NDV antigen was used to screen antibodies to NDV and the results compared with the conventional haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test titres. AGP test could detect NDV antibodies in serum samples when the corresponding HI titres were 1:8 and above. Detergent treatment of Newcastle disease virus greatly reduced its haemagglutinating ability. Simultaneous detection of antibodies to NDV and infectious bursal disease virus in AGP test was attempted and found successful.