title: [Detection of brucella antigens with colloid metal particles as markers for specific antigens].
abstract: Gold and silver sols were comparatively approved as markers of specific IgG isolated from hyperimmune Brucella antisera for the detection of brucellar antigens. The sensitivity of the test system using gold immunosol proved to be some higher (3.1-9.8 ng/ml of soluble and 2.0 x 10(4)-5.3 x 10(6) CFU/ml of corpuscular brucellar antigens) than that achieved with the use of silver immunosol (5.7-18.4 ng/ml of soluble and 6.1 x 10(4)-8.0 x 10(6) CFU/ml of corpuscular brucellar antigens). At the same time silver sol was a cheaper and more available marker. Both test systems were found to be highly specific. False positive results were observed only with Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 at high concentrations due to the fact that they had common polysaccharide haptens incorporated into lipopolysaccharides of these microorganisms. The proposed test systems with colloid metal particles used as markers of specific antibodies for the detection of Brucella antigens are technologically simple, economic, rapid, highly sensitive and specific. Their use in combination with other serological methods will make the results of analyses more informative, thus improving the quality of laboratory diagnostics of brucellosis.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Plaque Control of Siberia and the Far East, Irkutsk, Russia.
authors.forename: T Iu
authors.initials: TIu
authors.lastname: Zagoskina
authors.forename: E Iu
authors.initials: EIu
authors.lastname: Markov
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Kalinovskiĭ
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Golubinskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis*; D002002:Brucella / Q000276:immunology*; D003102:Colloids; D017979:Gold Colloid; D015151:Immunoblotting / Q000379:methods; D011817:Rabbits; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012834:Silver
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D003102:Colloids; D017979:Gold Colloid; D012834:Silver