Detection of antibodies to Shigella lipopolysaccharide in urine after natural Shigella infection or vaccination

Dani Cohen, Naday Orr, Guy Robin, Raphael Slepon, Shai Ashkenazi, Isaac Ashkenazi, Joshua Shemer

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ملخص

The purpose of the present study was to explore the possibility of detecting antibodies to Shigella sonnei lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in urine after infection or vaccination. Urinary immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgG antibodies and specific IgA secretory protein against S. sonnei LPS were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), after adjustment for urine concentration. A significant antibody level was defined as one above a cutoff value calculated from the geometric mean + 2 standard deviations of urinary anti-S. sonnei LPS levels in 43 healthy hepatitis B vaccinees (controls). Of 11 culture-proven cases of S. sonnei shigellosis, at convalescence 9 (82%) had significantly elevated levels of urinary antibodies to the homologous LPS. The S. sonnei conjugate vaccine, composed of S. sonnei O-specific polysaccharide covalently bound to recombinant exoprotein A of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, elicited a significant urine IgA or IgG anti-LPS response in 60% (6 of 10), 56% (9 of 16), 43% (16 of 37), and 14% (3 of 21) of the volunteers at 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months after vaccination, respectively. The specificity of the urine antibody response to S. sonnei LPS was documented by the total lack of response in subjects who received parenteral Shigella flexneri 2a-recombinant exoprotein A conjugate (69 urine samples) or meningococcal tetravalent control vaccines (4 urine samples). All the volunteers who lacked a significant response to S. sonnei LPS in serum also lacked such response in urine samples. Seventy- four percent of the volunteers with a significant IgA or IgG anti-LPS response in serum at convalescence or 14 days after vaccination showed a similar response in urine. The ratio of the titer of secretory protein bound to IgA anti-S. sonnei LPS in urine to that in serum was 303 times higher than the ratio of anti-S. sonnei LPS total IgA titer in urine to that in serum, indicating that the urine IgA is of secretory origin. These findings suggest the possible use of urinary Shigella LPS antibodies as markers of systemic and secretory immune responses after natural infection or vaccination. At this stage, because of its limited sensitivity, the detection by ELISA of Shigella LPS antibodies in urine cannot replace the same assay in serum as a definitive test in an individual with a negative result.

اللغة الأصليةالإنجليزيّة
الصفحات (من إلى)451-455
عدد الصفحات5
دوريةClinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
مستوى الصوت3
رقم الإصدار4
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء
حالة النشرنُشِر - 1996
منشور خارجيًانعم

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