A trapping-indirect ELISA was used to determine the isotype of the antibody against SVDV in pigs experimentally infected with SVDVPOL/73. The first antibodies were detectable as early as 4 days after experimental infection. Up to the 9th day, demonstrable antibodies were exclusively of the IgM class. At this day the IgG developed and remained as a plateaux level up to the 28th d.p.i. The similar results were obtained in pigs immunized with experimental vaccine prepared from SVDV antigen. The use of trapping-indirect ELISA allowed to significantly reduce the number of non-specific positive results (singleton reactors) obtained by virus neutralization test and MAC-ELISA method.