| Literature DB >> 11164919 |
M Nawa1, T Takasaki, K I Yamada, T Akatsuka, I Kurane.
Abstract
An IgM-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (IgM-ELISA) is used widely for serodiagnosis of dengue. A dengue IgM-ELISA with higher sensitivity has been developed. In the new ELISA, anti-dengue IgM antibody, which had been captured on the solid phase, was reacted with tetravalent dengue viral antigens, and detected by a flavivirus group specific monoclonal antibody, D1-4G2-4-15 (4G2). Reaction of 4G2 to viral antigens was similar to that of dengue patients' IgG. Non-specific reaction of 4G2 to the control antigen, which was prepared from uninfected cell culture fluid of mosquito C6/36 cells, was much lower than that of patients' IgG. Thus, specificity of the ELISA with 4G2 was much higher than that with patients' IgG, and lower levels of specific IgM was detected in the serum samples. These results suggest that the modified dengue IgM-ELISA with monoclonal antibody 4G2 has many advantages over the original "in-house" ELISA.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID： 11164919 DOI： 10.1016/s0166-0934(00)00274-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol Methods ISSN： 0166-0934 Impact factor: 2.014