Abstract: The invention provides for a method for the detection of FeLV infection in a patient, wherein a sample obtained from the patient is contacted in-vitro with a recombinant transmembrane p15E protein in a p15 (E) antibody binding step.

Abstract: The invention provides for a method for the detection of FeLV infection in a patient, wherein a sample obtained from the patient is contacted in-vitro with a recombinant transmembrane p15E protein in a p15 (E) antibody binding step.

Abstract: The invention provides for a method for the detection of FeLV infection in a patient, wherein a sample obtained from the patient is contacted in-vitro with a recombinant transmembrane p15E protein in a p15 (E) antibody binding step.

Abstract: The invention concerns a vaccine that can induce protection against disease especially in consequence of a lentivirus infection, especially an infection with the Feline Leukosis virus. Such vaccine comprises codon-optimized DNA sequences encoding structural proteins and the most important membrane protein of FeLV.

Abstract: A newly identified hemoplasma agent, Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis, is disclosed. Also disclosed are detection methods, screening methods and methods of diagnosis for the hemoplasma agent.

Abstract: A newly identified hemoplasma agent, Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis, is disclosed. Also disclosed are detection methods, screening methods and methods of diagnosis for the hemoplasma agent.

Abstract: A newly identified hemoplasma agent, Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis, is disclosed. Also disclosed are detection methods, screening methods and methods of diagnosis for the hemoplasma agent.

Abstract: A newly identified hemoplasma agent, Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis, is disclosed Also disclosed are detection methods, screening methods and methods of diagnosis for the hemoplasma agent.

Abstract: The invention concerns a vaccine that can induce protection against disease especially in consequence of a lentivirus infection, especially an infection with the Feline Leukosis virus. Such vaccine comprises codon-optimized DNA sequences encoding structural proteins and the most important membrane protein of FeLV.

Abstract: The use of feline interleukin-12 (IL-12) is described as an adjuvant (or immunostimulant) and in the vaccination and therapy of infectious diseases in Felidae. In addition, a procedure is disclosed which makes it possible to express the two subunits of IL-12 in the requisite mass ratio.

Abstract: A stacking device for uniform platelike pieces includes a conveying device and a container in which the pieces, which are advanced by the conveying device, are deposited with the front side of one piece against the back side of another. In order to protect the coated surface of the pieces the latter are separated from one another by means of intermediate layers separately fed into the container.

Abstract: Compositions and method are described for the detection of feline leukemia virus. Hybridomas are prepared producing monoclonal antibodies specific for at least one determinant site for the protein p27 of feline leukemia virus (FeLV). The antibodies are used in an enzyme immunoassay for determination of feline leukemia virus.

Abstract: A liquid surface-heating arrangement for heating floors is comprised of a plurality of heating tubes arranged and secured in relatively wide longitudinal passages formed as recesses in heat-isolating elements which form the primary layer of the floor. The heating tubes are arranged in the longitudinal passages so that they do not project upwardly from the upper surface of the heat-isolating elements and upon the application of the floor finish onto the floor primary layer all the channels receiving the tubes are entirely filled with the finish.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a container adaptable to the common, but separate, storage of two materials, said container comprising a first outer container for accommodation of a first material, said outer container being closable by a cover and having a peripheral external bead, and a second inner container, removably disposed within said outer container, for accommodation of a second material, said inner container having at least one peripheral retaining element projecting outwardly therefrom, which element engages said peripheral external bead of said outer container when said inner container is completely disposed within said outer container.

Abstract: Separator shields are provided between the substrates subject to sputtering and the boundaries between cathodes or between portions of the cathodes exposing different materials to be sputtered by a glow discharge. The shields extend to a few millimeters' spacing from the cathode and are at a potential at or near ground potential within .+-. 50 volts of the potential of the substrates. A common rear and side shield and a common electrical feed-through connection is provided for the cathode structure or cathodes. The substrates may be passed repeatedly through the sputtering zone or, in a circular configuration, can be moved in a circular path, so as to facilitate alloy-type coatings by producing very thin layers in alternation. The shielding reduces masking of one material by another on the cathode by cross-sputtering, thereby maintaining close to constancy the sputtering rates of the different materials for up to several hundred hours of operation.

Abstract: The engine of a motor vehicle is used to accelerate a flywheel up to a suitable test speed through rollers engaged with driven wheels of the vehicle. Then, when the wheels are braked, one torsion coupling gives a signal corresponding to the total braking force on both wheels and another torsion coupling between two of the rollers gives a signal corresponding to the braking force on one wheel. The braking force on the other wheel is obtained through a subtraction circuit. For testing undriven wheels, the flywheel is first brought up to speed by means of a set of driven wheels, then a clutch is released to free the flywheel while the rollers are stopped and the undriven wheel brought into position, after which the clutch is re-engaged and the undriven wheels are tested.

Abstract: Copper is sputtered onto a substrate to make a solder-fast contact layer by carrying out the sputtering in a discharge of a monatomic gas containing 0.5 to 16% of air, nitrogen or oxygen which reduces the conductivity of the copper layer, but makes it resistant to alloying with a solution in solder, to an extent comparable with the results obtained by the provision of intermediate diffusion barrier layers. Best results are obtained in an argon discharge in the presence of an admixture of nitrogen or air between 2 and 4% by volume. The solder-wetting properties are not impaired.