Primate Assay Laboratory Core
The Primate Assay Laboratory Core was formerly known as the Pathogen Detection Laboratory Core.
For Endocrinology Services please contact Dr Bill Lasley and Nancy Gee via email at nagee@ucdavis.edu or by phone at 530.752.2096.
The Primate Assay Laboratory offers antibody, antigen, virus, DNA, RNA and other diagnostic marker detection for a number of infectious agents. All methods and reagents are validated, standardized, and controlled by in-laboratory studies and proficiency testing using reference banks of characterized specimens. Quantitation is available by arrangement. Test results are reviewed by laboratory personnel. Custom testing including immunological and virological assays, training, and consultation are available; please inquire. In addition, SIV virus stocks, reagents and controls are available through Resource Services. PAL is a resource for Specific Pathogen-Free (SPF) colonies, field or epidemiological studies, research protocols, and atypical case resolution.
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Primate Assay Laboratory
- Specialty lab testing and expert consultation services to both the public and private sector. This includes local, regional, national and international research colonies; zoological collections; veterinary laboratories; and practices of all sizes.
- Methods and reagents validated, standardized, and controlled by in-laboratory studies and proficiency testing.
- Maintenance of reference banks of characterized specimens
- All test results reviewed by qualified senior personnel prior to reporting
- Resource for development and maintenance of Specific Pathogen-free (SPF) colonies
- Resource for field or epidemiological studies
- Resource for laboratory baseline and monitoring of animals on research studies
- Resource for unusual or atypical diagnostic cases
Select Publications from PAL Activities
Yee, JL, Van Rompay, KKA, Carpenter, AB, et al. SARS‐CoV‐2 surveillance for a non‐human primate breeding research facility. J Med Primatol. 2020; 00: 1– 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmp.12483
Yee JL, Grant RF, Van Rompay KKA, Roberts JA, Kuller L, Cunningham JL, Simmons JH, Papin JF. In vitro and In vivo Susceptibility of Baboons (Papio sp.) to Infection with and Apparent Antibody Reactivity to Simian Betaretrovirus (SRV). Comp Med. 2020 Feb 1;70(1):75-82. doi: 10.30802/AALAS-CM-19-000014. Epub 2019 Nov 20. PubMed PMID: 31747991; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7024778.
Van Rompay KKA, Keesler RI, Ardeshir A, Watanabe J, Usachenko J, Singapuri A, Cruzen C, Bliss-Moreau E, Murphy AM, Yee JL, Webster H, Dennis M, Singh T, Heimsath H, Lemos D, Stuart J, Morabito KM, Foreman BM, Burgomaster KE, Noe AT, Dowd KA, Ball E, Woolard K, Presicce P, Kallapur SG, Permar SR, Foulds KE, Coffey LL, Pierson TC, Graham BS. DNA vaccination before conception protects Zika virus-exposed pregnant macaques against prolonged viremia and improves fetal outcomes. Sci Transl Med. 2019 Dec 18;11(523). doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aay2736. PubMed PMID: 31852797; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7093037.
Borucki MK, Collette NM, Coffey LL, Van Rompay KKA, Hwang MH, Thissen JB, Allen JE, Zemla AT. Multiscale analysis for patterns of Zika virus genotype emergence, spread, and consequence. PLoS One. 2019;14(12):e0225699. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225699. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31809512; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6897431.
Robbiani DF, Olsen PC, Costa F, Wang Q, Oliveira TY, Nery N Jr, Aromolaran A, do Rosário MS, Sacramento GA, Cruz JS, Khouri R, Wunder EA Jr, Mattos A, de Paula Freitas B, Sarno M, Archanjo G, Daltro D, Carvalho GBS, Pimentel K, de Siqueira IC, de Almeida JRM, Henriques DF, Lima JA, Vasconcelos PFC, Schaefer- Babajew D, Azzopardi SA, Bozzacco L, Gazumyan A, Belfort R Jr, Alcântara AP, Carvalho G, Moreira L, Araujo K, Reis MG, Keesler RI, Coffey LL, Tisoncik-Go J, Gale M Jr, Rajagopal L, Adams Waldorf KM, Dudley DM, Simmons HA, Mejia A, O’Connor DH, Steinbach RJ, Haese N, Smith J, Lewis A, Colgin L, Roberts V, Frias A, Kelleher M, Hirsch A, Streblow DN, Rice CM, MacDonald MR, de Almeida ARP, Van Rompay KKA, Ko AI, Nussenzweig MC. Risk of Zika microcephaly correlates with features of maternal antibodies. J Exp Med. 2019 Oct 7;216(10):2302-2315. doi: 10.1084/jem.20191061. Epub 2019 Aug 14. PubMed PMID:
31413072; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6781003.
Pham HT, Hassounah S, Keele BF, Van Rompay KKA, Mesplède T. Insertion as a Resistance Mechanism Against Integrase Inhibitors in Several Retroviruses. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Sep 27;69(8):1460- 1461. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz136. PubMed PMID: 30753366; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7320072.
Goswami R, Nelson AN, Tu JJ, Dennis M, Feng L, Kumar A, Mangold J, Mangan RJ, Mattingly C, Curtis AD 2nd, Obregon-Perko V, Mavigner M, Pollara J, Shaw GM, Bar KJ, Chahroudi A, De Paris K, Chan C, Van Rompay KKA, Permar SR. Analytical Treatment Interruption after Short-Term Antiretroviral Therapy in a Postnatally Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Infant Rhesus Macaque Model. mBio. 2019 Sep 5;10(5). doi: 10.1128/mBio.01971-19. PubMed PMID: 31488511; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6945967.
Maness NJ, Schouest B, Singapuri A, Dennis M, Gilbert MH, Bohm RP, Schiro F, Aye PP, Baker K, Van Rompay KKA, Lackner AA, Bonaldo MC, Blair RV, Permar SR, Coffey LL, Panganiban AT, Magnani D. Postnatal Zika virus infection of nonhuman primate infants born to mothers infected with homologous Brazilian Zika virus. Sci Rep. 2019 Sep 5;9(1):12802. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019- 49209-7. PubMed PMID: 31488856; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6728326.
Yee JL, Prongay K, Miles B, Smedley J, Hansen SG, Axthelm MK, Ardeshir A, Van Rompay KKA, Timmel G, Roberts JA. Interferon- Gamma test for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex infection in Macaca mulatta and other non-human primates. J Med Primatol. 2019 Aug;48(4):260-263. doi: 10.1111/jmp.12420. Epub 2019 May 6. PubMed PMID: 31056769; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7012381.
Christe KL, Salyards GW, Houghton SD, Ardeshir A, Yee JL. Modified Dose Efficacy Trial of a Canine Distemper-Measles Vaccine for Use in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta). J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci. 2019 May 1;58(3):397-405. doi: 10.30802/AALAS-JAALAS-18-000091. Epub 2019 Mar 28. PubMed PMID: 30922419; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6526495.
Wang KY, Christe KL, Yee J, Roberts JA, Ardeshir A. Rotavirus is associated with decompensated diarrhea among young rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Am J Primatol. 2019 Jan;81(1):e22948. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22948. Epub 2019 Jan 8.
Van Rompay KKA, Hassounah S, Keele BF, Lifson JD, Ardeshir A, Watanabe J, Pham HT, Chertova E, Sowder R, Balzarini J, Mesplède T, Wainberg MA. Dolutegravir Monotherapy of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Macaques Selects for Several Patterns of Resistance Mutations with Variable Virological Outcomes. J Virol. 2019 Jan 4;93(2). pii: e01189-18. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01189-18. Print 2019 Jan 15. PubMed PMID: 30381490; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6321921.
Keeffe JR, Van Rompay KKA, Olsen PC, Wang Q, Gazumyan A, Azzopardi SA, Schaefer-Babajew D, Lee YE, Stuart JB, Singapuri A, Watanabe J, Usachenko J, Ardeshir A, Saeed M, Agudelo M, Eisenreich T, Bournazos S, Oliveira TY, Rice CM, Coffey LL, MacDonald MR, Bjorkman PJ, Nussenzweig MC, Robbiani DF. A Combination of Two Human Monoclonal Antibodies Prevents Zika Virus Escape Mutations in Non-human Primates. Cell Rep. 2018 Nov 6;25(6):1385-1394.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.10.031. PubMed PMID: 30403995; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6268006.
Dudley DM, Van Rompay KK, Coffey LL, Ardeshir A, Keesler RI, Bliss-Moreau E, Grigsby PL, Steinbach RJ, Hirsch AJ, MacAllister RP, Pecoraro HL, Colgin LM, Hodge T, Streblow DN, Tardif S, Patterson JL, Tamhankar M, Seferovic M, Aagaard KM, Martín CS, Chiu CY, Panganiban AT, Veazey RS, Wang X, Maness NJ, Gilbert MH, Bohm RP, Adams Waldorf KM, Gale M Jr, Rajagopal L, Hotchkiss CE, Mohr EL, Capuano SV 3rd, Simmons HA, Mejia A, Friedrich TC, Golos TG, O’Connor DH. Miscarriage and stillbirth following maternal Zika virus infection in nonhuman primates. Nat Med. 2018 Aug;24(8):1104-1107. doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0088-5. Epub 2018 Jul 2. PubMed PMID: 29967348; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6082723.
Coffey LL, Keesler RI, Pesavento PA, Woolard K, Singapuri A, Watanabe J, Cruzen C, Christe KL, Usachenko J, Yee J, Heng VA, Bliss-Moreau E, Reader JR, von Morgenland W, Gibbons AM, Jackson K, Ardeshir A, Heimsath H, Permar S, Senthamaraikannan P, Presicce P, Kallapur SG, Linnen JM, Gao K, Orr R, MacGill T, McClure M, McFarland R, Morrison JH, Van Rompay KKA. Intraamniotic Zika virus inoculation of pregnant rhesus macaques produces fetal neurologic disease. Nat Commun. 2018 Jun 20;9(1):2414. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018- 04777-6. PubMed PMID: 29925843; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6010452. PubMed PMID: 30620103.
Yee JL, Grant R, Van Rompay KK, Kuller L, Carpenter A, Watanabe R, Huebner R, Agricola B, Smedley J, Roberts JA. Emerging diagnostic challenges and characteristics of simian betaretrovirus infections in captive macaque colonies. J Med Primatol. 2017 Aug;46(4):149-153. doi: 10.1111/jmp.12295. PubMed PMID: 28748661; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5559289.
Hwa CZR, Tsai SP, Yee JL, Van Rompay KK, Roberts JA. Evidence of simian retrovirus type D by polymerase chain reaction. J Med Primatol. 2017 Jun;46(3):79-86. doi: 10.1111/jmp.12266. Epub 2017 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 28370081.
Coffey LL, Pesavento PA, Keesler RI, Singapuri A, Watanabe J, Watanabe R, Yee J, Bliss-Moreau E, Cruzen C, Christe KL, Reader JR, von Morgenland W, Gibbons AM, Allen AM, Linnen J, Gao K, Delwart E, Simmons G, Stone M, Lanteri M, Bakkour S, Busch M, Morrison J, Van Rompay KK. Zika Virus Tissue and Blood Compartmentalization in Acute Infection of Rhesus Macaques.PLoS One. 2017 Jan 31;12(1):e0171148. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171148. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28141843; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5283740.
Yee JL, Vanderford TH, Didier ES, Gray S, Lewis A, Roberts J, Taylor K, Bohm RP. Specific pathogen free macaque colonies: a review of principles and recent advances for viral testing and colony management. J Med Primatol. 2016 Apr;45(2):55-78. doi: 10.1111/jmp.12209. Epub 2016 Mar 1. Review. PubMed PMID: 26932456; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4801651.
Wang K‐Y, Christe KL, Yee J, Roberts JA, Ardeshir A. Rotavirus is associated with decompensated diarrhea among young rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Am J Primatol. 2019;81:e22948.
Evans TS, Barry PA, Gilard KV, Goldstein T, Deere JD, Fike J, Yee J, Ssebide BJ, Karmacharya D, Cranfield MR, Wolking D, Smith B, Mazet JAK, Johnson CK. Optimization of a novel non-invasive oral sampling technique for zoonotic pathogen surveillance in nonhuman primates. PLOS Published: June 5, 2015 •DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003813
Yee JL, NPRC Breeding Colony Management Consortium, McChesney MB, Christe KL. Multi-Center Safety and Immunogenicity Trial of an Attenuated Measles Vaccine (MVacTM) for Nonhuman Primates. Comp Med. 2015. In press.
Van Rompay KK, Hunter Z, Jayashankar K, Peabody J, Montefiori D, Labranche CC, Keele BF, Jensen K, Abel K, Chackerian B. A vaccine against CCR5 protects a subset of macaques upon intravaginal challenge with Simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmac251. J Virol 88(4):2011-2024, 2014. PMID 24307581
Jensen K, Pena MG, Wilson RL, Ranganathan UD, Jacobs WR Jr, Fennelly G, Larsen M, Van Rompay KK, Kozlowski PA, Abel K. A neonatal oral Mycobacterium tuberculosis-SIV prime / intramuscular MVA-SIV boost combination vaccine induces both SIV and Mtb-specific immune responses in infant macaques. Trials Vaccinol 2:53-63, 2013. PMID 24454591
Tanaka T, Lerche NW, Farver TB, Ardeshir A, Kass PH. Specific-pathogen-free status is associated with lower infant mortality rate in rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) colonies at the California National Primate Research Center. J Med Primatol 42(4):186-91, 2013. PMID 23586439
Lemoy MJ, Westworth DR, Ardeshir A, Tarara RP. Reference intervals for preprandial and postprandial serum bile acid in adult rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci. 52(4):444-7, 2013. PMCID: PMC3725928, PMID 23849441
Yee J, Montiel NA, Ardeshir A, Lerche NW. Constitutive release of interferon (IFN)-γ and interleukin (IL)-2 from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of healthy rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) infected with simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (STLV1). Comp Med. 63(6): 508-514. 2013.PMID 24326227
Ardeshir A, Oslund KL, Ventimiglia F, Yee J, Lerche NW, and Hyde DM. Idiopathic microscopic colitis of rhesus macaques: Quantitative assessment of colonic mucosa. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 296: 1169-1179, 2013. PMID 23775860
Jones-Engel L, Feeroz M, Soliven K, Small C, Engel G, Pacheco A, Yee J, Wang X, Hasa K, Oh G, Levine K, Alam S, Craig K, Jackson D, Lee E, Barry P, Lerche N, Escalante A, Matsen F, Lineal M. Population dynamics of rhesus macaques and associated foamy virus in Bangladesh. EMI 2013. PMCID: PMC3675400
Van Rompay KK. The use of nonhuman primate models of HIV infection for the evaluation of antiviral strategies. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 28(1):16-35, 2012. PMID 21902451
Jensen K, Ranganathan UDK, Van Rompay KKA, Canfield DR, Khan I, Ravindran R, Luciw PA, Jacobs WR, Fennelly G, Larsen M, and Abel K. A recombinant attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine strain is safe in immunosuppressed SIV-infected infant macaques. Clin Vaccine Immunol 19:1170-81 2012. PMCID: PMC3416096, PMID 22695156
Montiel NA, Todd PA, Yee J, and Lerche NW. Effects of simian betaretrovirus serotype 1 (SRV1) infection on the differentiation of hematopoietic progenitor cells (CD34+) derived from bone marrow of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Comp Med 62: 61-68, 2012. PMCID: PMC3276394, PMID 22330653
Broadhurst MJ, Ardeshir A, Kanwar B, Mirpuri J, Gundra UM, Leung JM, Wiens KE, Vujkovic-Cvijin I, Kim CC, Yarovinsky F, Lerche NW, McCune JM, and Loke Pn. Therapeutic helminth infection of macaques with idiopathic chronic diarrhea alters the inflammatory signature and mucosal microbiota of the colon. PLoS Pathog 8: e1003000, 2012. PMCID: PMC3499566, PMID 23166490
Marthas ML, Van Rompay KK, Abbott Z, Earl P, Buonocore-Buzzelli L, Moss B, Rose NF, Rose JK, Kozlowski PA, Abel K. Partial efficacy of a VSV-SIV/MVA-SIV vaccine regimen against oral SIV challenge in infant macaques. Vaccine 29(17):3124-37, 2011. PMCID: PMC3078946, PMID 21377510
Kelly KR, Pypendop BH, Grayson JK, Stanley SD, Christe KL, Summers LM, and Lerche NW. Pharmacokinetics of oxymorphone in titi monkeys (Callicebus spp.) and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci. 50: 212-20, 2011. PMCID: PMC3061422, PMID 21439215
Chen EC, Yagi S, Kelly KR, Mendoza SP, Tarara RP, Canfield DR, Maninger N, Rosenthal A, Spinner A, Bales KL, Schnurr DP, Lerche NW, and Chiu CY. Cross-species transmission of a novel adenovirus associated with a fulminant pneumonia outbreak in a new world monkey colony. PLoS Pathog 7: e1002155, 2011. PMCID: PMC3136464, PMID 21779173
White JA, Yang X, Todd PA, Lerche NW. Longitudinal patterns of viremia and oral shedding of rhesus rhadinovirus and retroperitoneal fibromatosis herpesviruses in age-structured captive breeding populations of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Comp Med 61(1):60-70, 2011. PMCID: PMC3060420, PMID 21819683
Luciw PA, Oslund KL, Yang X-w, Adamson L, Ravindran R, Canfield DR, Tarara R, Hirst L, Christensen M, Lerche NW, Offenstein H, Lewinsohn D, Ventimiglia F, Brignolo L, Wisner ER, and Hyde DM. Stereologic analysis of bacterial load and lung lesions in nonhuman primates (rhesus macaques) experimentally infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 301: 731-738, 2011. PMCID: PMC3213984, PMID 21873450
Liao Q, Guo H, Tang M, Touzjian N, Lerche NW, Lu Y, and Yee JL. Simultaneous detection of antibodies to five simian viruses in nonhuman primates using recombinant viral protein based multiplex microbead immunoassays. J Virol Methods 178: 143-152, 2011. PMCID: PMC3213204, PMID 21945221
Van Rompay KK, Abel K, Earl P, Kozlowski PA, Easlick J, Moore J, Buonocore-Buzzelli L, Schmidt KA, Wilson RL, Simon I, Moss B, Rose N, Rose J and Marthas ML. Immunogenicity of viral vector, prime-boost SIV vaccine regimens in infant rhesus macaques: attenuated vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) recombinant SIV vaccines compared to live-attenuated SIV. Vaccine 28(6):1481-1492, 2010. PMCID: PMC2822069, PMID 19995539
von Gegerfelt A, Valentin A, Alicea C, Van Rompay KK, Marthas ML, Montefiori DC, Pavlakis GN, and Felber BK. Emergence of Simian immunodeficiency virus-specific cytotoxic CD4+ T Cells and increased humoral responses correlate with control of rebounding viremia in CD8-depleted macaques infected with rev-independent live-attenuated Simian immunodeficiency virus. J Immunol 185(6):3348-58, 2010. PMID 20702730
Winters MA, Van Rompay KK, Kashuba AD, Shulman NS, and Holodniy M. Maternal-fetal pharmacokinetics and dynamics of a single intrapartum dose of maraviroc in rhesus macaques. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54(10):4059-4063, 2010. PMCID: PMC2944591, PMID 20696881
Van Rompay KK. Evaluation of antiretrovirals in animal models of HIV infection. Antiviral Res 85(1):159-175, 2010. PMID 19622373
Zao CL, Armstrong K, Tomanek L, Cooke A, Berger R, Estep JS, Marx PA, Trask JS, Smith DG, Yee JL, and Lerche NW. The complete genome and genetic characteristics of SRV-4 isolated from cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Virology 405: 390-396, 2010. PMCID: PMC2941434, PMID 20615522
Kanthaswamy S, Kou A, Satkoski J, Penedo MC, Ward T, Ng J, Gill L, Lerche NW, Erickson B J, and Smith DG. Genetic characterization of specific pathogen-free rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) populations at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC). Am J Primatol 72: 587-599, 2010. PMCID: PMC2941796, PMID 20162538
Oates-O’Brien RS, Farver TB, Anderson-Vicino KC, McCowan B, and Lerche NW. Predictors of matrilineal overthrows in large captive breeding groups of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci 49: 196-201, 2010. PMCID: PMC2846008, PMID 20353695
Lerche NW. Simian retroviruses: infection and disease – implications for immunotoxicology research in primates. J Immunotoxicol 7: 93-101, 2010. PMID 20433415
Olivier KJ, Jr, Price KD, Hutto DL, Lerche NW, Mansfield KG, Simmons JH, Taylor K, Myers L P, Ouyang Y, and Evans EW. Naturally occurring infections in non-human primates (NHP) and immunotoxicity implications: discussion sessions. J Immunotoxicol 7: 138-146, 2010. PMID 20441554
Farkas T, Cross RW, Hargitt E, 3rd, Lerche NW, Morrow AL, and Sestak K. Genetic diversity and histo-blood group antigen interactions of rhesus enteric caliciviruses. J Virol 84: 8617-8625, 2010. PMCID: PMC2919043, PMID 20554772
Zao CL, Armstrong K, Tomanek L, Cooke A, Berger R, Estep JS, Marx PA, Trask JS, Smith DG, Yee JL, and Lerche NW. The complete genome and genetic characteristics of SRV-4 isolated from cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). Virology 405: 390-396, 2010. PMCID: PMC2941434, PMID 20615522
Chen CI, Clark DC, Pesavento P, Lerche NW, Luciw PA, Reisen WK, and Brault AC. Comparative pathogenesis of epidemic and enzootic Chikungunya viruses in a pregnant rhesus macaque model. Am J Trop Med Hyg 83: 1249-1258, 2010. PMCID: PMC2990040, PMID 21118930
Durand-Gasselin L, Van Rompay KK, Vela JE, Henne IN, Lee WA, Rhodes GR, and Ray AS. Nucleotide analogue prodrug Tenofovir Disoproxil enhances lymphoid cell loading following oral administration in monkeys. Mol Pharm 6(4):1145-51, 2009. PMCID: PMC2777719, PMID 19545170
Fairman J, Moore J, Lemieux M, Van Rompay KK, Geng Y, Warner J, and Abel K. Enhanced in vivo immunogenicity of SIV vaccine candidates with cationic liposome-DNA complexes in a rhesus macaque pilot study. Hum Vaccin 5(3):141-50, 2009. PMCID: PMC2728146, PMID 18690014
Rosati M, Bergamaschi C, Valentin A, Kulkarni V, Jalah R, Alicea C, Patel V, von Gegerfelt AS, Montefiori DC, Venzon DJ, Khan AS, Draghia-Akli R, Van Rompay KK, Felber BK, and Pavlakis GN. DNA vaccination in rhesus macaques induces potent immune responses and decreases acute and chronic viremia after SIVmac251 challenge. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(37):15832-6, 2009. PMCID: PMC2734879, PMID 19717425
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Primate Assay Laboratory
PAL was funded by NCRR under the direction of Dr. Lerche to develop and offer testing for nonhuman primates to develop specific pathogen free colonies and improve overall nonhuman primate colony health.
PAL now functions as both a research and diagnostic laboratory, and provides testing for SPF colonies.
Over the years, the assays developed by PDL have been widely applied and resulted in more accurate and efficient diagnostic tests leading to specific pathogen free and better characterized nonhuman primate colonies. PDL has also taken a leading role in technology transfer to other nonhuman primate institutions by providing training, characterized controls and reagents, and proficiency testing.
We strive at developing new and improved tests as science and technology advance leading to the discovery of new pathogens and more sophisticated technologies.