Studies on antiplague haemagglutinating antibodies. Treatment of test sera with acetone and 2-mercaptoethanol.
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- Vol. 51 (3) , 237-43
Abstract
The indirect haemagglutination (IHA) test has been widely applied in the detection of antiplague antibodies in rodent sera. In the present study, acetone treatment of the test serum was tried in order to improve the specificity of the reaction. It was shown that the IHA titres of acetone-treated sera correlated well with those of untreated sera measured by the standard method recommended by WHO. Essentially the same results were obtained with sera from experimentally immunized rodents and from captured wild rats. In addition to acetone treatment, the sera were treated with 2-mercaptoethanol (ME). The results obtained indicated that the antiplague IHA antibodies produced early after the inoculation of plague bacilli were ME-sensitive, whereas those detected in the later stages or after a second inoculation were ME-resistant. The data suggest that acetone treatment of sera could be useful for the screening of antiplague antibodies, and that treatment with ME is helpful in assessing the time of past plague infections. The present survey has also shown that the positive rates of antiplague antibodies in wild rats trapped in Kobe, one of the largest sea ports in Japan, have so far been very low.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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