Kitai Yoko, Kondo Takashi, Konishi Eiji
Department of International Health, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan.
Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2010 May;17(5):875-8. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00217-09. Epub 2010 Mar 17.
A complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) assay was established to measure antibodies to the West Nile virus (WNV) nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) in horses. Sera collected from a WNV-infected horse mediated lysis of WNV NS1-expressing cells in a dose-dependent manner at higher percentages than sera from a Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV)-infected horse. The percentages of specific lysis for sera diluted 1:10 to 1:80 were <19.8% (assay cutoff) for almost all of the 100 JEV-infected or uninfected horses tested, in contrast to 55 to 76% in WNV-infected horses. Experimental infection revealed that horses became anti-WNV NS1 antibody positive 10 days after WNV infection. This study demonstrated the utility of this assay for differentiating WNV from JEV infections in horses.
建立了一种补体依赖性细胞毒性(CDC)试验,用于检测马体内针对西尼罗河病毒(WNV)非结构蛋白1(NS1)的抗体。从感染WNV的马身上采集的血清,以剂量依赖的方式介导了表达WNV NS1的细胞的裂解,其裂解百分比高于从感染日本脑炎病毒(JEV)的马身上采集的血清。在测试的100匹感染JEV或未感染JEV的马中,几乎所有血清稀释1:10至1:80后的特异性裂解百分比均<19.8%(试验临界值),相比之下,感染WNV的马的特异性裂解百分比为55%至76%。实验感染表明,马在感染WNV后10天抗WNV NS1抗体呈阳性。本研究证明了该试验在区分马感染WNV和JEV方面的实用性。