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Evaluation of antigen and antibody detection in urine specimens from children with congenital human cytomegalovirus infection

✍ Scribed by M. Koopmans; D. Sánchez-Martinéz; J. Patton; J. Stewart

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
939 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0146-6615

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Abstract

Fetal infection with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the leading viral cause of brain dam age among newborns at birth or later in life. Efforts to screen newborns routinely for shedding of the virus by immunoassay have been ham pered by inhibitors in urine, reportedly the host protein beta2‐microglobulin (β2m). An enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was devel oped for the detection of HCMV antigen in which the reactivity was not affected by the presence of β2m, but nevertheless inhibition was observed when urine samples with high levels of virus were tested. The presence of antibodies to HCMV was demonstrated in these urine samples by antibody ELISA and immunoblot using the major antigenic protein of HCMV (pp150) expressed in Escherichia coli; this offers an alterna tive explanation for the inhibition in ELISA. The presence of HCMV antibodies correlated significantly with congenital HCMV infection (as detected by tissue culture isolation of virus from urine samples of newborns), especially with as ymptomatic cases (sensitivity 70%; specificity 94%). The data indicate a local (renal) immune response to HCMV in congenitally infected children, which may have future diagnostic applica tions. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America.

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