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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, Jul 1996, 472-476, Vol 3, No. 4
Copyright © 1996 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Humoral immune response against lipopolysaccharide and cytoplasmic proteins of Brucella abortus in cattle vaccinated with B. abortus S19 or experimentally infected with Yersinia enterocolitica serotype 0:9

PC Baldi, GH Giambartolomei, FA Goldbaum, LF Abdon, CA Velikovsky, R Kittelberger and CA Fossati
Instituto de Estudios de la Inmunidad Humoral, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas de Argentina-Universidad de Buenos Aires (IDEHU, CONICET-UBA), Argentina.

The humoral immune responses against three different antigens of Brucella abortus were monitored by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in cattle vaccinated with B. abortus S19 or experimentally infected with Yersinia enterocolitica serotype 0:9. Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM responses against (i) B. abortus lipopolysaccharide (LPS), (ii) total cytoplasmic proteins depleted of LPS (LPS-free CYT), and (iii) B. abortus 18-kDa cytoplasmic protein were measured. Vaccinated animals and Yersinia-infected animals developed high anti-LPS IgM and IgG titers, which overlapped with those obtained with sera from B. abortus 544-infected animals used as positive controls. In contrast, only a slight or negative IgG and IgM response against LPS-free CYT and the 18- kDa protein was detected in vaccinated or Yersinia-infected cattle, although its levels were always significantly lower than those of B. abortus 544-infected animals. These data indicate that cytoplasmic proteins of B. abortus could be useful for the differential diagnosis of bovine brucellosis.

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