City of Milwaukee Health Department View Institution's Website 1 article published in JoVE Immunology and Infection High-throughput Detection Method for Influenza Virus Pawan Kumar1, Allison E. Bartoszek1, Thomas M. Moran2, Jack Gorski3, Sanjib Bhattacharyya4, Jose F. Navidad4, Monica S. Thakar1,5, Subramaniam Malarkannan1,6 1Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Immunotherapy, Blood Research Institute, 2Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 3Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Blood Research Institute, 4City of Milwaukee Health Department Laboratory, 5Division of Hematology-Oncology/BMT, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, 6Division of Hematology and Oncology, Dept Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin This method describes the use of Infrared dye based imaging system for detection of H1N1 in bronchioalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid of infected mice at a high sensitivity. This methodology can be performed in a 96- or 384-well plate, requires <10 μl volume of test material and has the potential for concurrent screening of multiple pathogens.
