B-cell peptide epitopes as diagnostic targets for Q fever in sheep
Although single peptides lacked discriminatory power, multi-epitope combinations reached acceptable accuracy and may be used as a complementary tool for commercial ELISAs. However, larger bioinformatic approaches and validation studies are required to identify specific peptides of high diagnostic accuracy.
Authors
- Tamara Kozytska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8598-9529)
- Claudia Gerlach
- Maksym Danchenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3676-0728)
- Hanka Brangsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-0644)
- Heinrich Neubauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8287-6705)
- Gabriela Flores‐Ramírez
- Katja Mertens-Scholz
- Ludovit Skultety
- Martin Pfeffer
- Mathias W. Pletz
Institutions
- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (DE)
- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology (CZ)
- Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- Jena University Hospital (DE)
- Institute of Virology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Published
- 2026-02-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2026.1751544
- Primary Topic
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00