Measles serodiagnosis: standardization and evaluation of a dot-ELISA

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Lourdes R. A. Vaz De Lima²  Sumie Hoshino-shimizu²  Vanda A. U. F. De Souza¹  Claudio S. Pannuti¹  Heitor F. Andrade Junior¹  Laura M. Sumita¹  Antonio W. Ferreira¹ 

[1] ,Instituto Adolfo Lutz Divisão de Biologia Médica Seção de ImunologiaSão Paulo SP ,Brazil

关键词: Dot-ELISA;    Measles;    Serologic diagnosis;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46651994000200008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A Dot-ELISA using a measles virus (MV) antigen obtained by sodium deoxycholate treatment was standardized and evaluated for IgM and IgG antibody detection in measles patients and measles-vaccinated subjects. A total of 192 serum samples were studied, comprising 47 from patients with acute and convalescent measles, 55 from 9-month old children prior to measles vaccination and 41 from children of the same age after vaccination, and 49 from patients with unrelated diseases. The diagnostic performances of the IgG Dot-ELISA and IgG immuno fluorescence test (IFT) were found to be close, varying from 0.97 to 1.00 in sensitivity and the specificities were maximum (1.00). Nevertheless, the sensitivity of the IgM Dot-ELISA (0.85) was higher than that (0.63) of the IgM IFT, although both assays had comparably high (1.00) specificities. The IgM Dot-ELISA in particular proved to be more sensitive in relation to other assays studied by revealing antibodies in 80.0% (12/15) of vaccinated children on the 15th day after immunization. In contrast the IgM IFT, failed to detect antibodies in the same group of vaccinated children. The stability of the MV antigen was longer than that of the IFT antigen, and the reproducibility of the Dot-Elisa was satisfactory.

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