EVALUATION OF THE HUMAN IMMUNE-RESPONSE TO OUTER-MEMBRANE PROTEINS OF VIBRIO-CHOLERAE
EVALUATION OF THE HUMAN IMMUNE-RESPONSE TO OUTER-MEMBRANE PROTEINS OF VIBRIO-CHOLERAE
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DOI:
10.1128/iai.44.2.439-444.1984
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
LEVINE, MM
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作者:
SEARS, SD;RICHARDSON, K;LEVINE, MM
The immune response of 114 volunteers with diarrhea after experimental challenge with 4 strains of V. cholerae O1 was characterized in a microtiter enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay antibody detection system by using a partially purified outer membrane preparation (OMP) from these strains as an antigen. Analysis of paired sera from 29 persons with noncholera diarrhea (negative control population), demonstrated that a rise in net optical density > 0.10 was significant. Of the 79 cholera volunteers challenged with El Tor biotype and the 35 volunteers challenged with classical biotype, 50 and 54%, respectively, had significant rises in IgG anti-OMP. Paired sera that showed significant rises when tested against homologous OMP all manifested significant rises when also tested against a serotype-heterologous OMP. Immunoblotting techniques showed that the antigens to which antibodies were reacting were mainly protein in nature, not lipopolysaccharide. Absorption with lipopolysaccharide decreased the optical density by a mean of only 12% (0-30%), corroborating that antibody was mainly directed against OMP and not lipopolysaccharide. Thus, there is a human IgG response to OMP during clinical cholera infection; this response is constant among bio- and serotypes.