The Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 25, Issue 4 269-278, Copyright © 1988 by Society for General Microbiology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Antigens recognised by the human immune response to infection with Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo

A. J. Chapman, B. Adler and S. Faine
Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.

Serum samples from patients infected with Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo were tested by the microscopic agglutination test (MAT), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and immunoblotting. There was no apparent correlation between MAT titre and EIA optical density (OD) for individual serum samples, but sequential serum samples produced similar profiles in both tests during the course of an infection. Immunoblotting of hardjo sonicate with patients' sera revealed reactions with a number of bands, in the mol. wt (10(3] range 14.4-95. However, all serum samples reacted with the major 28 x 10(3)-mol. wt sub-unit of hardjo lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and most reacted with a (34.5-35) x 10(3)-mol. wt flagella doublet. Examination of sequential serum samples obtained over a period of about 3 months after infection revealed little change in the antigens detected after the second to third week of infection. Absorption of patients' sera with whole viable leptospires revealed that antibodies to several exposed antigens, including LPS, were produced. Sera which reacted with hardjo flagella also reacted with bands of similar mol. wts in preparations from other serovars.

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