Detection of serum antibodies to hepatitis E virus in domestic pigs in Italy using a recombinant swine HEV capsid protein

BMC Veterinary Research

Franco Maria Ruggeri²  Fabio Ostanello³  Manuel Liciardi¹  Ginevra Orrù¹  Ilaria Di Bartolo²  Eleonora Ponterio² 

[1] S.C. Diagnostica territoriale di Cagliari, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Via dell’Acquedotto Romano - Z.I, 09030 Elmas (CA), Italy;Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy;Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Tolara di Sopra 50, 40064 Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy

关键词: Western blotting;    ELISA;    ORF2;    Swine;    Hepatitis E virus;   

Others  :  866754
DOI  :  10.1186/1746-6148-10-133

 received in 2014-01-24, accepted in 2014-06-04,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

The hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been detected in both humans and animals, particularly pigs, worldwide. Several evidences, including human infection following consumption of raw contaminated meat, suggest a zoonotic transmission of HEV. In Italy, large circulation of genotype 3 HEV has been reported in swine, and recent studies have confirmed the involvement of this genotype in autochthonous human cases.

Result

In this study 111 sera collected from healthy pigs in two Italian regions were tested for anti-HEV IgG antibodies. For specific HEV antibody detection in swine, we developed ELISA and Western blotting methods, using a truncated capsid (ORF2) protein lacking the first 111 amino acids of a swine HEV genotype 3 strain. The ORF2-based ELISA revealed anti-HEV antibodies in 104 out of 111 pigs compared with 102 detected with a commercial ELISA kit. A lower number of sera reacted with the recombinant ORF2 protein in a Western blotting format (81/111). Using a Latent class analysis (LCA), the estimated sensitivities for ELISA-ORF2 and ELISA-kit tests were 0.961 and 0.936, respectively, whereas specificities were 0.599 and 0.475. The estimated sensitivity of Western blotting was 0.775, and the specificity was 0.944.

Conclusions

The overall results confirm the high prevalence of HEV seropositive healthy pigs in Italy. Through comparisons with a commercial ELISA test, the swine genotype 3 HEV antigen produced in this study was proven suitable to detect anti-HEV antibodies in pig sera by both ELISA and Western Blotting.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Ponterio et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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