Campylobacter jejuni agent de diarrhées: expérience d'un an de recherches systématiques

Piémont, Y.; Abanamy, Ahmad

doi:10.1016/s0399-077x(80)80121-1

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“…Our own experience of antigen prepared in this way and reacted against rabbit serum prepared against strain COP was that the agglutinates formed were large and floccular and appeared after incubation at 37 °C after only 4 h, suggesting that 100 °C for 15 min may not be adequate to abolish H-type agglutination. Other workers also appear to have had similar difficulties in preparing satisfactory O antigens (Piemant & Abanamy, 1980). We are indebted to Dr S. Lauwers, Free University, Brussels, for serotyping our reference strains.…”

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Comparison of agglutination, complement fixation and immunofluorescence tests in Campylobacter jejuni infections

Watson

Kerr

1982

J. Hyg.

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Good antibody responses usually follow infection with Campylobacter jejuni. A comparison of agglutination, complement fixation and immunofluorescence tests was done on 55 sera from 40 sporadic patients with diarrhoeal disease and positive cultures for C. jejuni. Results showed 82% positive with immunofluorescence, 62% by complement fixation but only 38% by agglutination, using two reference strains COP and MEL as antigens. Overall 90% of the 40 patients were positive by one or more serological tests. Paired sera from 15 patients showed a fourfold or greater rise in only five, confirming previous observations that antibody formation occurs early in the course of infection. Results also suggest that different test systems may be detecting antibodies of different specificities. Results confirm the value of serological tests, but further information on serotypes is required for selection of suitable reference strains.

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confidence: 93%