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. 1986 Jun;23(6):1039–1043. doi: 10.1128/jcm.23.6.1039-1043.1986

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for virulence properties of Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates.

F A Klipstein, R F Engert, H B Short
PMCID: PMC268788  PMID: 3711295

Abstract

To evaluate the capacity of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) to identify pathogenic strains among clinical fecal isolates of Campylobacter jejuni, 40 consecutively obtained strains from 39 sick patients and 1 asymptomatic person were tested by respective ELISAs for enterotoxin production in culture filtrates and for the invasive virulence antigen of bacterial cells. Of the 40 strains, 14 produced the enterotoxin; 15 strains, two of which were also enterotoxigenic, were invasive; and 11 strains had no detectable virulence property. The presence or absence of these virulence properties was confirmed by the demonstration that viable cells of all 12 randomly selected enterotoxigenic or invasive strains tested, but none of 9 nonpathogenic strains tested, caused fluid secretion in rat ligated ileal loops. All 12 patients examined who were infected with an invasive strain had grossly or microscopically evident blood cells in their stools or both, whereas none of those infected with an enterotoxigenic strain had overtly bloody diarrhea, and only 1 of 8 patients examined had microscopically evident blood cells in the stool. Twelve of the invasive, five of the enterotoxigenic, and three of the nonpathogenic strains also produced small amounts of cytotoxin, but there was no correlation between cytotoxin production and an abnormal response in rat ligated ileal loops. These observations show that enterotoxin production or invasiveness or both can be detected by ELISAs in three-fourths of C. jejuni fecal isolates and that there is usually a relationship between the specific pathogenic property of the infecting strain and the clinical mainfestations.

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