{"id":1964,"date":"2015-03-29T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biomedpharmajournal.org\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2020-04-26T07:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T07:45:19","slug":"detection-of-paramphistomum-cevi-antibodies-in-rabbits-using-elisa-and-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biomedpharmajournal.org\/staging\/vol4no2\/detection-of-paramphistomum-cevi-antibodies-in-rabbits-using-elisa-and-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Detection of Paramphistomum cevi Antibodies in Rabbits using ELISA and DID"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction <\/strong><\/p>\n

Paramphistomum\u00a0 is a member of the family paramhistomatidae which constitutes one of the most common and abundant groups of digenetic trematodes of domesticated livestock, especially in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The disease paramhistomiasis caused massive infection of the small intestines with immature paramphistomes, characterized by sporadic epizootic outbreaks of acute parasitic gastroenteritis with high morbidity and mortality rates, particularly in young stock (Horak, 1971). Diagnosis of paramphistomiasis during sub-clinical phase is of immense importance for early detection of disease so that the mortalities can be reduced by timely intervention and treatment. However early detection of the disease is difficult applying coprological techniques. There is an urgent need for the development of a reliable diagnostic test and an attempt is the\u00a0 present investigation for detection of anti-paramphistomun cervi antibodies by indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).<\/p>\n

Material and Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preparation of Antigen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adult P. cervi<\/em> were collected from the rumen of infected sheep. The worms were washed with physiological saline and stored at \u2013 200C until use. Somatic antigen of adult fluke was prepared by the following technique of Yadav and Gupta (1966). The paramphistome fluke were blotted over sterile filter paper and were freeze dried. 1 gram of fluke was immersed in 5 ml of PBS (pH 7.2) and then homogenized for 30 minutes, followed by sonication for 1 min at 40C.<\/p>\n

The emulsion was then centrifuged at 10000rpm for 30 minutes at 40C. The supernatant was collected and stored at -200C. The protein concentration was determined by the method of Doumas (1981). Finally 0.1% of thiomersol preservative was added to each antigen and stored in refrigerator.<\/p>\n

Sera Samples<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blood samples were collected at necropsy from sheep, positive for P. cervi infection. The serum was separated and respectively labbled as positive and negative (control) sera.<\/p>\n

Imune sera<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hyperimmune sera was raised in white New Zealand rabbits against respective antigen, by following standard protocol described by (Yadav and Gupta, 1995). The injection was given subcutaneously with equal quantity of Friunds Complete Adjuvant at 5 days intervals. Rabbits were bled after 7 days of last injection. The serum was separated and kept at -200C for further use.<\/p>\n

Agar Gel Diffusion test<\/strong><\/p>\n

Immunodiffusion test was carried out as per method described by ouchterlony 1958. The test was carried out using five ml of 1% agar solution (Defco) prepared in 100 ml of baritone buffer (pH 8.6). The agar solution was poured onto slides @ 5 ml\/slide. Then slides were kept at room temperature so that gel solidifies. At the centre of gel plate, wells were made at a distance of 3 mm between the central and peripheral wells. The wells were charged with antigen and antibody, the diffusion allowed in moist chamber at\u00a0 370C for 48hr, two precipitin lines were noted after staining the gel with comassive brilliant blue R \u2013 250 stain.<\/p>\n

Elisa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microtitration plate (Nunc) were coated with antigen diluted (2 \u00b5g\/ml) in carbonate buffer (pH 9.6) and incubated at 370C for 1hr before keeping overnight at 40C, coated plates were blocked with 3% skimmed milk in PBS for 2 hrs at 370C, after washing the plate with phosphate buffer (3 times). Test sera was added (in appropriate dilution 1:100, 1:200, 1:400 etc) and normal sera into each well @ 100 ml \/ well. Serum was diluted in PBS-1% skimmed milk and then incubated at 370C for 2 hr. Then plates were again washed and 100 ml of antiovine and antirabbit IgG- peroxidase conjugate (1:5000 dilution, sigma USA) was added and kept at 370C for 2 hr. After washing five times, in substrate\u00a0 (orthophenylene diamine \u2013 OPD Sigma USA.) Plates were kept in dark for 7 minutes (Ghosh and Gupta, 2005). The reaction was stopped by adding 50 ml of 3NHCl per well and the optical density was measured at 492 nm using ELISA reader (labsystem multiscan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Plate<\/td>\nPlate 1: Microtitration plate<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

The crude somatic antigens of P. cervi<\/em> injected into the rabbits found to be highly antegenic. The ELISA was carried out by the following method of Ghosh and Gupta, (2005) with slight modification. The checker board titration was performed to find out optimum concentration of antibody.<\/p>\n

For the ELISA, ovine sera and rabbit sera were tested using a 2 \u2013 fold dilution from 1: 100 to 1: 12800 dilution (Fig 1a), in sheep sera from 1:100 to 6400 dilution (Fig 1b). Before ELISA, antibody titre was detected by ouchterlony test, during 2 \u2013 3 weeks of post infection, only one band was found and after 3rd \u2013 4th\u00a0weeks of post infection, two bands were found, the antibody titre obtained in DID was 1: 16, with the increasing serum dilution the antibody absorbance values were found to be decreased sharply and could not be detected by double imuminodiffusion test. At 6th\u00a0week of post infection, antibody was detected by ELISA. The sera were tested using 2 fold dilution from 1:100 dilution, the sera had increased antibody absorbance values at 6th\u00a0\u2013 8th\u00a0week of post infection, then due to increasing dilution, the antibody absorbance values was found to be decreased, ultimately from 1:128, 00 dilution no reaction was positive. At 9th\u00a0week of infection antibody was not found in the dilution (Plate a). No reaction was observed in the control sera. A strong absorbance values was noted in the sera of rabbit experimentally immunized with P. cervi<\/em> antigen when tested with homologous antigen, at 6th\u00a0week of post infection and no positive absorbance were detected in the sera collected on 9th\u00a0week of post infection. The absorbance value of hyperimmune sera in 1:100 was 1.710, in the dilution of 1: 12800 was 0.34, where as in case of ovine sera highest absorbance values was 0.892, and at last dilution 16400, it was 0.048 (Fig. II). The present study reveals that ELISA is the most effective diagnostic technique for the detection of antibodies. ELISA has been reported specific and sensitive serodiagnostic tool for the paragonimosis (Zhang et al.,<\/em> 2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Figure<\/td>\nFigure \u00a01(a): Infected Rabbit serum dilution<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Figure<\/td>\nFigure 1(b): Infected Sheep serum dilution<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

ELISA test has been reported to be good from the point of sensitivity and specificity (Maisonnave, 1999). In the present study in comparison to diffusion in gel, the ELISA test has been found to be highly effective and may be employed for the wide use in seroepidiomological survey (Ibarra et al.,<\/em> 1998) of paramhistomiasis. In Haemonchus contortus<\/em> infection also a highest titre of 1:40, 000 observed with rabbit hyperimmune sera raised by somatic antigen of H. contortus<\/em> (Kaur et al<\/em>., 2002). The high titre observed in the present study may be the significance in diagnosis of paramhistomiasis in field. The serodiagnosis of the disease is the only alternate coproscopic detection of the fluke eggs (Hammond, 1973, El \u2013 Hareth, 1980; Gupta and Yadav, 1992).<\/p>\n

The immunodiffusion test and ELISA have been found suitable and test of choice for serodiagnosis of fascioliasis Hillyer, 1975; cechini and Kasalin 1989; Gomez, et al., 1984 and Gormen et. al.,<\/em> 1993) due to their high specificity and satisfactory sensitivity.<\/p>\n

The present study aimed to identify partially antigenic polypeptides of P. cervi<\/em> may help in the Immunodiagnosis of paramphistomiasis. There is no information on the antigenic polypeptides of this parasite, although (Maji et al.,<\/em> 1997) investigated antigenic cross reactivity among three species of paramphistomes.<\/p>\n

The preliminary investigation indicated that IgG antibodies can be detected even upto a dilution of 1:12800 by the ELISA. It is thus concluded that soluble extracts of P. cervi<\/em> are highly antigenic.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

The present study reveals that ELISA is the most effective diagnostic technique for the detection of antibodies against paramphistomum cervi<\/em>. It has been detected that\u00a0 ELISA is more specific, sensitive and reliable serodiagnostic technique than DID for paramphistomiasis.<\/p>\n

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