• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.187-193
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• 1986

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) using crude and affinity-purified antigens of adult worms of Paragonimus westermani was performed for infected cat sera with different worm burden, from preinfection to 18th week after infection. Crude antigen was used with supernatant of homogenated worms by freezing-thawing method, and the supernate was centrifuged for 1 hour at 10,000 rpm at $4^{\circ}C$. Affinity-purified antigen(antibody-bound antigen) was prepared from fractions(bound and unbound) of crude antigen by affinity chromatography on CNBr-activated sepharose 4B, and IgG as a ligand was prepared from paragonimiasis cat serum(6 months infected) obtained by ammonium sulfate ($40%{\sim}45%$ saturated) precipitation method. By SDS-PAGE, crude antigen showed 22 polypeptide fractions while purified antigen showed 4 fractions: 36, 400, 34, 700, 27, 600 and 11, 500 in molecular weights. All cats were divided into five groups($G_1-G_5$) by different worm burdens. The mean of recovered worms(${\pm}SD$) and the number of cats in each group are as follows: $G_1$, 2 worms(0) and 4 cats; $G_2$, 4.75 (${\pm}0.66$) and eight; $G_3$, 10.75(${\pm}1.92$) and four; $G_4$, 23.20(${\pm}3.43$) and five; $G_5$, 48(${\pm}12.63$) and five cats. The results were summarized as follows: 1. The antibody levels(OD value) increased by worm burden in $G_1$ to $G_4$ generally. However, individual antibody levels were not exactly related with worm burden in all groups, especially there was a wide difference in $G_4$ and $G_5$. These results suggested that the worm burden in $G_4$ (about $20{\sim}30$ worms) is enough to produce antibody maximum in cats of $2{\sim}3kg$ weight. 2. The antibody levels increased significantly(p<0.05) compared to control sera at the 3rd week in $G_1$ and $G_2$, at the 2nd week in $G_3$, and at the 1st week in $G_4$ and $G_5$. Especially in the 4th week, OD value increased more in $G_1$(p<0.01) and in $G_2$ to $G_5$(p<0.001). In the pattern of antibody levels by ELISA in each group, OD in $G_1$ increased to the 18th week continuously, in $G_2$ OD was maintained same after the 16th week, but in $G_3$ it decreased after the 16th week, and it was maintained same in $G_4$ and $G_5$ after the 14th week. 3. The antibody levels by ELISA with the affinity-purified antigen were higher than those with crude antigen in all groups generally. Especially, the difference of OD values between two antigens was larger from the 4th to the 10th week. In $G_1$ and $G_2$ OD with purified antigen was higher than that with crude one to the 18th week. It was also higher in $G_3$ than that with crude antigen to the 16th week and OD of $G_4$ and $G_5$ were higher before the 14th week than that with crude antigen, however became lower at the 16th week. Consequently, the antibody level in ELISA with affinity-purified antigen was more sensitive at the early weeks after infection and in light infection groups than that with crude antigen.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.55-72
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• 1995

임상 검체에서 분리 동정한 E.faecalis 균주에 대하여 gentamicin및 타 항균제에 대한 감수성을 조사했고, R-플라스미드 DNA패턴 및 제한효소에 의한 DNA단편분석,filter-mating에 의한 gentamicin 플라스미드 DNA 전이, R-플라스미드 DNA 제거, tetracycline 내성 유전자확인, 항원분석을 실시하였다. 분리된 40주 E. faecalis 모두가 gentamicin에는 내성이었고, 25주는 요 검체에서 분리되었으며, 이 40균주들 중 95%가 입원환자에서 분리되어 중요한 원내감염균임을 알 수 있었다. Gentamicin 고도내성 E. faecalis는 24주(60%)이었고, 최소억제농도의 범위는 ampicillin이 1~64$\mu$g/ml, Chroramphenicol 이 8~128$\mu$g/ml 과 erythromycin 128 $\mu$g/ml, vancomycinol 1~2 $\mu$g이었다. 분리한 Gentamicin 고도내성 E. faecalis HL-1은 4가지 항균제에 모두 내성이었고, 7종류의 플라스미드가 있었다. HL-2와 HL-3은 모두 6종류, HL-4는 7종류, HL-5는 4종류 그리고 HL-6은 5종류의 플라스미드가 있었다. E. faecalis HL-1 과 HL-6의 내성전달 빈도는 6.3$\times10^{-4}$ 과 3.7$\times10^{-5}$이 었으며, E faecalis HL-1의 내성전달 빈도가 높았다 접합에 의해 E.faecalir HL-1과 HL-6의 플라스미드 중 51.7 Kb크기의 전이된 DNA가 확인되어 gentamicin 내성이 플라스미드 전이에 의한 것임을 알 수 있었다. Tetracycline 유전자는 E.faecalis transconjugants R-1의 2.15 Kb 플라스미드에 있었다. 공여균주 및 transconjugants균주의 항원성을 Immunoblotting으로 분석한 결과 E. faecalis HL-1과 E. faecalis transconjugants R-1균주는 97.8, 46.8 Kd의 분자량을 갖는 단백질과 공통적으로 반응하였고, E. faecalis HL-6와 E. faecalis transconjugants R-6균주는 46.8 Kd의 분자량을 갖는 단백질과 공통적으로 반응하였다. 그 반응의 강도는 85.8, 97.8, 46.8, 33.7, 63.5 와 74.8 Kd 순이었다. 공여균주 E. faecalis HL-6에서는 반응하지 않았던 97.8, 95.8, 74.8와 63.5 Kd의 단백질이 E. faecalis transconjugants R-6균 주에서 반응하였다. 이들 종 특이성 단백질을 Invitro에서는 배양되지 않는 E. faecalis에 대한 혈청학적 진단의 항원으로 이용한다면 유용할 것이다.