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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, November 2005, p. 1261-1268, Vol. 12, No. 11
1071-412X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CDLI.12.11.1261-1268.2005

Validation of a Monoclonal Antibody-Based Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Detection of Campylobacter fetus

J. Devenish,1* B. Brooks,1 K. Perry,2 D. Milnes,1 T. Burke,1 D. McCabe,1 S. Duff,1 and C. L. Lutze-Wallace1

Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield, 3851 Fallowfield Rd., P.O. Box 11300 Stn. H, Ottawa, Ontario K2H 8P9, Canada,1 Veterinary Laboratory Agency Winchester, Itchen Abbas, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1BX, England2

Received 25 May 2005/ Returned for modification 5 July 2005/ Accepted 31 August 2005

A monoclonal antibody (MAb)-based antigen capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was compared with the routine culture methodology for the detection of Campylobacter fetus subspecies from bovine and ovine field samples inoculated into Clark's transport enrichment medium (TEM). The work was a collaboration between two different diagnostic laboratories, one in Canada and the other in England. In both labs, TEM samples were incubated for 4 days at 35°C and then tested by culture and ELISA. The ELISA consisted of initial screening with MAb M1825 against C. fetus subspecies core lipopolysaccharide (LPS). All samples positive on ELISA screening were then retested by ELISA with MAb M1825 and MAbs M1177, M1183, and M1194, which recognize serotype A- and/or serotype B-specific C. fetus subspecies LPS epitopes. The Canadian samples consisted of 1,060 preputial washings from 529 bulls, of which 18 were positive by both culture and ELISA and 1,042 were negative by both methods. The English samples consisted of 321 tissue specimens, mostly stomach contents and placentas, from 190 aborted ovine and bovine fetuses. A total of 262 samples were negative by culture and ELISA, 52 samples were positive by culture and ELISA, and 7 samples were culture negative but ELISA positive. The results for all 70 culture-positive isolates were confirmed by conventional biochemical methods as C. fetus subsp. fetus, with 39 presumptively identified by the ELISA as serotype A and 30 presumptively identified as serotype B and with one sample containing isolates presumptively identified as serotype A and serotype B. A receiver operating characteristic analysis of the combined ELISA data from both countries resulted in an area under the curve of 0.997, with a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 99.5% relative to the results of culture. The data confirm that this ELISA method can be used as an excellent test for the screening of field samples in TEM for the presence of C. fetus subspecies.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield, 3851 Fallowfield Rd., P.O. Box 11300 Stn. H, Ottawa, Ontario K2H 8P9, Canada. Phone: (613) 228-6698. Fax: (613) 228-6669. E-mail: jdevenish{at}inspection.gc.ca.

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, November 2005, p. 1261-1268, Vol. 12, No. 11
1071-412X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CDLI.12.11.1261-1268.2005






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