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Reactivity of human serum antibody with lipopolysaccharide O 78 antigen from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

H. Brüssow  and
J. Sidoti
H. Brüssow
Affiliation:
Nestlé Research Centre, Nestec Ltd., Vers-chez-les-Blanc, CH-1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland
J. Sidoti
Affiliation:
Nestlé Research Centre, Nestec Ltd., Vers-chez-les-Blanc, CH-1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland
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Fifteen and five of 20 volunteers challenged with the enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strain O 78·H11 showed a fourfold titre increase of serum ELISA antibody to the homologous O 78 and the heterologous O 8 lipopolysaccharide antigen, respectively. Sixty-three of 191 sera from 1- to 48-month-old German children showed serum antibody reactive with O 78 antigen, all but two of these O 78-positive sera also showed reactivity with at least one further O antigen. Only 14 of the O 78 reactive sera also showed antibody to heat-labile enterotoxin. In addition, soluble O 8 antigen could inhibit the binding of serum antibody to absorbed O 78 in 68% of the German children. Antibody reactive with O 78 antigen is thus not a reliable serological marker for enterotoxigenic E. coli infection in German children.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 108 , Issue 2 , April 1992 , pp. 315 - 322
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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