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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, 01 1995, 35-39, Vol 2, No. 1
Copyright © 1995 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Human immune response against outer membrane proteins of Moraxella (Branhamella) catarrhalis determined by immunoblotting and enzyme immunoassay

ME Helminen, R Beach, I Maciver, G Jarosik, EJ Hansen and M Leinonen
National Public Health Institute, Oulu, Finland.

The role of Moraxella (Branhamella) catarrhalis as a respiratory tract pathogen is increasingly recognized. We looked at the human immune response against individual outer membrane proteins of M. catarrhalis and against the 81-kDa CopB protein, which has previously been shown to be a target for protective antibodies. Paired serum samples from six elderly patients with pneumonia were tested by Western blot (immunoblot) analysis by using outer membrane vesicles of M. catarrhalis 035E as antigen. All of the six convalescent-phase serum samples reacted with a protein which migrated at the position of the CopB protein and with a high-molecular-weight protein of M. catarrhalis; three serum samples also reacted with a 34-kDa outer membrane protein. Paired serum samples from 18 patients, 10 of which had M. catarrhalis infection on the basis of previous serology results, were tested by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) with the CopB protein and whole cells of M. catarrhalis 035E as antigens. Nine patients showed a significant rise in EIA titer between acute- and convalescent-phase sera when whole bacterial cells were used as antigens. Six (67%) patient samples that were positive by the EIA with the whole-cell antigen were also positive by the EIA with the CopB antigen, and six of nine patient samples negative by the EIA with the whole-cell antigen were also negative by the EIA with the CopB antigen.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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