“…Similar results were also reported in studies developing MAbs agaist a grouper iridovirus (Shi et al, 2003), haemocytes of scallop (Xing and Zhan, 2005), lymphocystis disease virus (Cheng et al, 2006), S. maximus rhabdovirus (Zhou et al, 2006) in aquaculture research, respectively. Concerning fish rhabdoviruses, previous reports on MAbs focused mainly on virus detection using the antigen capture ELISA, sandwich ELISA and immunoperoxidase techniques (Schultz et al, 1985;Mourton et al, 1992;Sanz et al, 1992;Reno and Lannan, 1992;Reschova et al, 2007). With the development of modern immunological techniques, many new diagnosis and characterization methods of virus pathogens have been established in virtue of MAbs.…”