TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Antibodies, Bacterial
KW - Antigens, Bacterial
KW - Blotting, Western
KW - Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Immune Sera
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Mycetoma
KW - Nocardia
KW - Nocardia Infections
KW - Rabbits
KW - Tuberculosis
AU - Salinas-Carmona M C
AU - Vera L
AU - Welsh O
AU - Rodríguez M
AB - <p>A crude extract from N. brasiliensis cells grown in brain heart infusion culture was analyzed. It showed a complex mixture of at least 37 bands when resolved with the discontinuous buffer system of Laemmli in a gradient SDS-PAGE. Western blot analysis of 16 sera from N. brasiliensis-infected individuals always showed the recognition of six bands of 61, 49, 45, 42, 26, and 24 kilodaltons (kDa). Some other bands also reacted but with less intensity. Sera from tuberculosis and leprosy patients reacted strongly with the 49, 45, and 42 kDa bands but weakly or not at all with the 61, 26, and 24 kDa. Sera from healthy control volunteers reacted with some bands but little or not at all with those three identified by the sera from mycetoma patients. These three immunodominant antigens (61, 26 and 24 kDa) may be of clinical value in the serodiagnosis of mycetoma by N. brasiliensis.</p>
BT - Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie : international journal of medical microbiology
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1576408?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1992 Feb
DO - 10.1016/s0934-8840(11)80546-3
IS - 3
J2 - Zentralbl. Bakteriol.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A crude extract from N. brasiliensis cells grown in brain heart infusion culture was analyzed. It showed a complex mixture of at least 37 bands when resolved with the discontinuous buffer system of Laemmli in a gradient SDS-PAGE. Western blot analysis of 16 sera from N. brasiliensis-infected individuals always showed the recognition of six bands of 61, 49, 45, 42, 26, and 24 kilodaltons (kDa). Some other bands also reacted but with less intensity. Sera from tuberculosis and leprosy patients reacted strongly with the 49, 45, and 42 kDa bands but weakly or not at all with the 61, 26, and 24 kDa. Sera from healthy control volunteers reacted with some bands but little or not at all with those three identified by the sera from mycetoma patients. These three immunodominant antigens (61, 26 and 24 kDa) may be of clinical value in the serodiagnosis of mycetoma by N. brasiliensis.</p>
PY - 1992
SP - 390
EP - 7
T2 - Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie : international journal of medical microbiology
TI - Antibody response to Nocardia brasiliensis antigens in man.
VL - 276
SN - 0934-8840
ER -