Isolation, cultivation, and partial characterization of the ELB agent associated with cat fleas.
AUTOR(ES)
Radulovic, S
RESUMO
ELB rickettsiae from cat flea homogenates were recovered in tissue culture cells following sequential passage through laboratory rats and the yolk sacs of embryonated chicken eggs. Seven days after inoculation of ELB from the infected yolk sacs, Vero cells and L929 cells were observed to contain intracellular bacteria as demonstrated by Diff Quik and indirect immunofluorescence assay staining. The rickettsial and ELB identity of the cultured agent was confirmed by PCR detection of the 16S rRNA and citrate synthase genes and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the 17-kDa conserved rickettsial antigen gene. The ELB rickettsiae induced plaques in Vero cells on day 11 postinfection. Rat anti-ELB serum reacted at 1:4,096 to cultured ELB and had lower reactivity to Rickettsia typhi Wilmington (1:1,024), Rickettsia akari Kaplan (1:512), and Rickettsia australis JC (1:64). Spotted fever group polyclonal sera also exhibited lower reactivity to ELB than to the homologous antigen. Coomassie blue-stained sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis profiles of the ELB isolate and two R. typhi strains were identical.
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