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  • Title: Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin.
    Author: Klipstein FA, Engert RF, Houghten RA, Rowe B.
    Journal: J Clin Microbiol; 1984 Jun; 19(6):798-803. PubMed ID: 6381522.
    Abstract:
    The sensitivity of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect pure native Escherichia coli heat-stable toxin (ST) and to identify ST-producing strains among clinical isolates was determined. Two synthetically produced ST preparations were used to raise hyperimmune antisera in rabbits and goats: ST(S), which has the same antigenicity as native ST; and ST(C), which is 15-fold more immunogenic. These antisera were used in the double-sandwich technique as either crude double-species antisera or pure single-species antibody. The sensitivity of the assay was increased by using either a purer antibody preparation or the antiserum to the more potent immunogen; the assay in which pure antibody to ST(C) was used was 2,857-fold more sensitive in detecting ST than the assay in which crude antiserum to ST(S) was used. The minimum amount of ST detectable by the ST(C) ELISA was 140 pg/ml, which was an amount 285-fold smaller than that detectable by the suckling mouse assay. Among 50 human E. coli isolates examined by both the ST(C) ELISA and an ELISA for heat-labile toxin (LT), which had a sensitivity of 290 pg/ml for LT, the respective toxins were consistently identified in broth cultures of 10 LT+ and ST-, 15 LT+ and ST+, and 10 LT- and ST+ strains, and there were no false-positive responses. The ST(C) ELISA also detected ST in all of seven ST - producing E. coli strains tested of human origin, which had been shown elsewhere by DNA hybridization probes to have ST-coding genes of either human or porcine origin, and in all of three ST-producing E. coi strains tested of porcine origin. These results indicate that the sensitivity of the ST(C) ELISA is the same as that of previously described LT ELISAs. The concomitant use of both ST and LT ELISAs provides a rapid, simple, and sensitive method for identifying among clinical isolates enterotoxigenic strains of E. coli which produce either toxin.
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