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Rathinam SR, Kohila JG, Sundar BK, Gowri CP, Vedhanayagi R, Radhika M, Nadella V. Utility of demographic and clinical signs as diagnostic predictors for leptospiral uveitis: A retrospective study. Indian J Ophthalmol 2024; 72:869-877. [PMID: 38804803 PMCID: PMC11232860 DOI: 10.4103/ijo.ijo_1376_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 10/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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PURPOSE Leptospirosis is a waterborne zoonotic disease prevalent in tropical regions, causing significant morbidity and mortality. It can involve any organ in its primary stage, and uveitis is its late complication. While advanced laboratory diagnosis is available only in tertiary care centers globally, a cost-effective bedside assessment of clinical signs and their scoring could offer a provisional diagnosis. AIM To analyze the diagnostic potential of demographic and clinical signs in a large cohort of serologically confirmed leptospiral uveitis patients. METHODS In this retrospective study, demographic and clinical parameters of 876 seropositive leptospiral uveitis patients and 1042 nonleptospiral uveitis controls were studied. Multivariable logistic regression analysis with bootstrap confidence interval (CI) characterized the diagnostic predictors. The performance of the model was evaluated using the area under the receiver operating curve (AUROC). RESULTS Presence of nongranulomatous uveitis (odds ratio [OR] = 6.9), hypopyon (OR = 4.6), vitreous infiltration with membranous opacities (OR = 4.3), bilateral involvement (OR = 4), panuveitis (OR = 3.3), vasculitis (OR = 1.9), disc hyperemia (OR = 1.6), absence of retinochoroiditis (OR = 15), and absence of cystoid macular edema (OR = 8.9) emerged as predictive parameters. The AUROC value was 0.86 with 95% CI of 0.846-0.874. At a cut-off score of 40, the sensitivity and specificity were 79.5 and 78.4, respectively. CONCLUSION The study demonstrates that ocular signs can serve as diagnostic predictors for leptospiral uveitis, enabling primary care ophthalmologists to make bedside diagnosis. This can be further confirmed by laboratory methods available at tertiary care centers.
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- S R Rathinam
- Uveitis Service, Aravind Eye Hospital and PG Institute of Ophthalmology, Anna Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Biostatistics, Aravind Eye Hospital and PG Institute of Ophthalmology, Anna Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Immunology, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Anna Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Immunology, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Anna Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Immunology, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Anna Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Immunology, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Anna Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Amaravati Hospital, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Bothammal P, Michelraj S, Venkatachalam G, Verma A, Natarajaseenivasan K. Electrochemical biosensor for serogroup specific diagnosis of leptospirosis. Bioelectrochemistry 2022; 144:108005. [PMID: 34864273 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2021.108005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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A problem with the current leptospirosis diagnostic methods is the low sensitivity and specificity during the acute phase of illness. Rapid point-of-care (POC) assays with minimal sample utilization and low cost are desired in clinical practice. Here, we report for the first time lipopolysaccharide (LPS) based electrochemical biosensor that offers a rapid, highly sensitive, serogroup specific diagnosis of leptospirosis during the acute stage of infection and also to distinguish from other flu like infections. The proposed sensor is fabricated by the immobilization of LPS onto dodecanethiol (DT) modified gold electrode. Monolayer of DT is attached through covalent bond (Au-S) interaction onto the gold electrode. Thus, leptospiral antibodies from the human serum samples bind to the LPS present on self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of DT and showed a higher RCT value compared to SAM. The detection limit of the developed LPS sensor is estimated to be 100 nM. This biosensor is the first electrochemical sensing platform used for detection of LPS from Leptospira spp. This method is completely a solution-based diagnostic method and therefore it is rapid, simple, and sensitive; thus establishing a key technology towards a useful POC diagnostic strategy in serogroup level and hence an alternative to MAT.
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- Palanisamy Bothammal
- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Center for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli - 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Electrodics and Electrocatalysis (EEC) Division, CSIR - Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR - CECRI), Karaikudi - 630003, Tamil Nadu, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Electrodics and Electrocatalysis (EEC) Division, CSIR - Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR - CECRI), Karaikudi - 630003, Tamil Nadu, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
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- Lincoln Memorial University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Harrogate, TN 37752, USA.
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- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Center for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli - 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India; Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
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Denipitiya DTH, Chandrasekharan NV, Abeyewickreme W, Hartskeerl RA, Hapugoda MD. Identification of cattle, buffaloes and rodents as reservoir animals of Leptospira in the District of Gampaha, Sri Lanka. BMC Res Notes 2017; 10:134. [PMID: 28330498 PMCID: PMC5363019 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-017-2457-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Leptospirosis is an important emerging infectious disease in Sri Lanka. Rats are the most important reservoir of Leptospira but domestic and wild mammals may also act as important maintenance or accidental hosts. In Sri Lanka, knowledge of reservoir animals of leptospires is poor. The objective of this study was to identify potential reservoir animals of Leptospira in the District of Gampaha, Sri Lanka. Findings Blood and kidney samples were collected from 38 rodents and mid-stream urine samples were randomly collected from 45 cattle and five buffaloes in the District of Gampaha. Kidney and urine samples were tested by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and serum samples were tested by the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Of the 38 rodent kidney samples, 11% (4/38) were positive by real-time PCR. The prevalence of leptospiral carriage was 11% (3/26) and 8% (1/12) in female and male rodents, respectively. Three rodent serum samples were positive by MAT. Of the 50 cattle/buffalo urine samples tested, 10% (5/50) were positive by real-time PCR. The prevalence of leptospiral carriage was 9% (4/45) and 20% (1/5) in cattle and buffaloes, respectively. Conclusion Results of PCR and MAT showed that Leptospira were present in a significant proportion of the rodents and farm animals tested in this study and suggest that these (semi-) domestic animals form an infection reservoir for Leptospira. Therefore, there is a potential zoonotic risk to public health, most notably to farmers in this area.
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- D T H Denipitiya
- Molecular Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, P.O. Box 06, Ragama, Sri Lanka.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka
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- Molecular Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, P.O. Box 06, Ragama, Sri Lanka
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- WHO/FAO/OIE Collaborating Centre on Leptospirosis, KIT Biomedical Research, Meibergdreef 39, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Molecular Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, P.O. Box 06, Ragama, Sri Lanka.
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Vanithamani S, Shanmughapriya S, Narayanan R, Raja V, Kanagavel M, Sivasankari K, Natarajaseenivasan K. Lipopolysaccharide Specific Immunochromatography Based Lateral Flow Assay for Serogroup Specific Diagnosis of Leptospirosis in India. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0137130. [PMID: 26340095 PMCID: PMC4560487 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 08/12/2015] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is a re-emerging infectious disease that is under-recognized due to low-sensitivity and cumbersome serological tests. MAT is the gold standard test and it is the only serogroup specific test used till date. Rapid reliable alternative serogroup specific tests are needed for surveillance studies to identify locally circulating serogroups in the study area. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In the present investigation the serological specificity of leptospiral lipopolysaccharides (LPS) was evaluated by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), dot blot assay and rapid immunochromatography based lateral flow assay (ICG-LFA). Sera samples from 120 MAT positive cases, 174 cases with febrile illness other than leptospirosis, and 121 seronegative healthy controls were evaluated for the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of the developed assays. LPS was extracted from five locally predominant circulating serogroups including: Australis (27.5%), Autumnalis (11.7%), Ballum (25.8%), Grippotyphosa (12.5%), Pomona (10%) and were used as antigens in the diagnostics to detect IgM antibodies in patients' sera. The sensitivity observed by IgM ELISA and dot blot assay using various leptospiral LPS was >90% for homologous sera. Except for Ballum LPS, no other LPS showed cross-reactivity to heterologous sera. An attempt was made to develop LPS based ICG-LFA for rapid and sensitive serogroup specific diagnostics of leptospirosis. The developed ICG-LFA showed sensitivity in the range between 93 and 100% for homologous sera. The Wilcoxon analysis showed LPS based ICG-LFA did not differ significantly from the gold standard MAT (P>0.05). CONCLUSION The application of single array of LPS for serogroup specific diagnosis is first of its kind. The developed assay could potentially be evaluated and employed for as MAT alternative.
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- Shanmugam Vanithamani
- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India
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- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India
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- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India
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- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India
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- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India
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- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India
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- Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India
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Evaluation of recombinant LigB antigen-based indirect ELISA and latex agglutination test for the serodiagnosis of bovine leptospirosis in India. Mol Cell Probes 2014; 28:141-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2014.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2013] [Revised: 12/28/2013] [Accepted: 01/01/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Kannan A, Priya CG, Prajna L, Rathinam SR. Efficiency of two commercial kits in serodiagnosis of leptospiral uveitis. Indian J Med Microbiol 2012. [DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.103762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Sivakolundu S, Sivakumar RR, Chidambaranathan GP, Sritharan M. Serological diagnosis of leptospiral uveitis by HbpA IgG ELISA. J Med Microbiol 2012; 61:1681-1687. [PMID: 22956745 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.046870-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease that is highly prevalent in tropical countries; uveitis is one of the manifestations of leptospirosis. The leptospiral aetiology of uveitis is difficult to predict because of overlapping clinical symptoms with uveitis due to other causes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the leptospiral haemin-binding protein HbpA as a diagnostic antigen for the serodiagnosis of leptospiral uveitis. Serum samples from patients, clinically diagnosed with leptospiral uveitis, were tested by ELISA for anti-HbpA antibodies and compared against the 'gold standard' microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Non-leptospiral uveitis and normal healthy individuals were used as controls. A total of 60 serum samples from patients suffering from leptospiral uveitis were studied, obtained from Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai. Anti-HbpA IgG antibodies were detected in 92 % of patients clinically diagnosed with leptospiral uveitis, indicating that it is more sensitive than MAT, which had a seropositivity of only 50 %, and better than the commercially available Pan Bio IgM ELISA (81 %). The mean anti-HbpA antibody titre was significantly higher in leptospiral uveitis patients compared with controls (P<0.05). The antigen showed negligible cross-reactivity with non-leptospiral uveitis samples and cataract controls. We conclude that HbpA IgG ELISA identified cases of uveitis with leptospirosis aetiology and proved to be useful in differentiating them from other forms of uveitis.
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- Subha Sivakolundu
- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India
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LruA and LruB antibodies in sera of humans with leptospiral uveitis. CLINICAL AND VACCINE IMMUNOLOGY : CVI 2008; 15:1019-23. [PMID: 18400972 DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00203-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Uveitis can be a serious complication of leptospirosis. Previous studies indicated that the leptospiral lipoproteins LruA and LruB are expressed in the eyes of uveitic horses and that antibodies directed against those proteins show in vitro cross-reactivity with components of equine lens, ciliary body, and/or retina. We now demonstrate that sera from a significant proportion of humans who have leptospiral uveitis also contain antibodies against LruA and LruB. Different categories of nonleptospiral uveitis and autoimmune uveitis were also screened; patients diagnosed with Fuchs uveitis or Behçet's syndrome produced antibodies that cross-reacted with LruA and LruB, suggesting similarities of the autoimmune responses in those diseases with those of leptospiral uveitis.
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Early diagnosis of leptospirosis by immunoglobulin M immunoblot testing. CLINICAL AND VACCINE IMMUNOLOGY : CVI 2008; 15:492-8. [PMID: 18184827 DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00152-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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There is an urgent need for the development of serodiagnostic approaches with improved sensitivity for patients with acute leptospirosis. Immunoblots were performed on 188 sera collected from 74 patients with laboratory-confirmed early leptospiral infection to detect immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies to antigens pooled from 10 leptospiral strains prevalent in Thailand. Sera from patients with other febrile diseases served as controls. IgM reactivity to seven distinct antigens, with apparent molecular masses of 14 to 18, 19 to 23, 24 to 30, 32, 35/36, 37, and 41/42 kDa, was observed. The low-molecular-mass 14- to 18-kDa band was the most frequently detected antigen, being recognized in sera from 82.4% of patients during the first 3 days after the onset of symptoms. We evaluated the accuracy of the IgM immunoblot (IgM-IB) test by using reactivity to the 14- to 18-kDa band and/or at least two bands among the 19- to 23-, 24- to 30-, 32-, 35/36-, 37-, and 41/42-kDa antigens as the diagnostic criterion. The sensitivities of the IgM-IB test and the microscopic agglutination test (MAT) were 88.2% and 2.0%, respectively, with sera from patients 1 to 3 days after the onset of symptoms. In contrast, the IgM-IB test was positive with only 2/48 (4.2%) sera from patients with other febrile illnesses. The high sensitivity and specificity of the IgM-IB test for acute leptospirosis would provide greatly improved diagnostic accuracy for identification of patients who would benefit from early antibiotic intervention. In addition, the antigens identified by the IgM-IB test may serve as components of a rapid, accurate, point-of-care diagnostic test for early leptospirosis.
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Leptospirosis is a serious infection disease caused by pathogenic strains of the Leptospira spirochetes, which affects not only humans but also animals. It has long been expected to find an effective vaccine to prevent leptospirosis through immunization of high risk humans or animals. Although some leptospirosis vaccines have been obtained, the vaccination is relatively unsuccessful in clinical application despite decades of research and millions of dollars spent. In this review, the recent advancements of recombinant outer membrane protein (OMP) vaccines, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) vaccines, inactivated vaccines, attenuated vaccines and DNA vaccines against leptospirosis are reviewed. A comparison of these vaccines may lead to development of new potential methods to combat leptospirosis and facilitate the leptospirosis vaccine research. Moreover, a vaccine ontology database was built for the scientists working on the leptospirosis vaccines as a starting tool.
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- Zhijun Wang
- CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200031, Shanghai, PR China.
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Thirumalapura NR, Morton RJ, Ramachandran A, Malayer JR. Lipopolysaccharide microarrays for the detection of antibodies. J Immunol Methods 2005; 298:73-81. [PMID: 15847798 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2005.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2004] [Revised: 11/22/2004] [Accepted: 01/06/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the major component of Gram-negative bacterial outer membrane. LPS are immunogenic and show species/strain specificity. The demonstration of anti-LPS antibodies in clinical samples is of diagnostic value in certain Gram-negative bacterial infections. In the present study we explored the possibility of immobilizing LPS isolated from different bacteria in a microarray format for the detection of anti-LPS antibodies. LPS was successfully immobilized on nitrocellulose-coated glass slides, preserving the accessibility of epitopes for antibody binding. Specificity of the LPS arrays was established using four different monoclonal antibodies specific for Escherichia coli O111, E. coli O157, Francisella tularensis and Salmonella typhimurium O-antigens and a panel of LPS preparations. The detection limit of antibodies was found to be 10 ng/ml, which is about a 100-fold greater sensitivity compared to conventional immunofluorescence assays. Furthermore, using LPS arrays, tularemia positive canine serum samples could be differentiated from negative samples based on the presence of significantly higher levels of anti-F. tularensis LPS antibodies in positive samples. LPS arrays will facilitate simultaneous screening of samples against multiple antigens and are expected to find applications in diagnostics and seroepidemiology.
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- N R Thirumalapura
- Department of Physiological Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
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