Iris Medits-Weiss, Heidemarie Holzmann, Lukas Weseslindtner, Karin Stiasny
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Detecting rubella virus-specific antibodies by cytopathic effect and immunoenzymatic microneutralization tests
Background
Rubella in early pregnancy can cause severe congenital malformations, but can be prevented by vaccination. Immunity to rubella is usually assessed by the detection of rubella virus-specific antibodies. Neutralization tests (NTs) are of highest diagnostic significance, because they measure the effectiveness of antibodies to block viral infection.
Objectives
The ability of rubella virus to cause a cytopathic effect (CPE) is limited. Therefore, most NT formats are based on immunoenzymatic techniques detecting viral proteins in infected cells. As Vero cells have been described to be susceptible to rubella virus infection with a more pronounced CPE, we aimed to develop an NT with these cells.
Methods
We compared rubella NTs with different infectivity readout methods (immunoenzymatic vs. CPE) using 42 human polyclonal samples with a known IgG ELISA concentration (IU/ml).
Results
We found a strong positive correlation between rubella virus-specific ELISA IgG units and neutralization titers determined with the two different NTs as well as between the two NT formats.
Conclusion
NT titer determination using CPE as a readout for infectivity is a reliable and promising method for rubella serology.
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The Journal of Virological Methods focuses on original, high quality research papers that describe novel and comprehensively tested methods which enhance human, animal, plant, bacterial or environmental virology and prions research and discovery.
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