Direct skin test in highly sensitized guinea pigs for rapid and sensitive determination of staphylococcal enterotoxin B.
AUTOR(ES)
Scheuber, P H
RESUMO
The direct skin test in highly sensitized guinea pigs was developed as a rapid and extremely sensitive assay for detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) in foods. This report details the experimental conditions required to elicit optimal sensitization of guinea pigs to SEB. An intense and persistent immunoglobulin E (IgE) anti-SEB response was established in strain 13 guinea pigs pretreated with cyclophosphamide followed by four sensitizing doses of 10 micrograms of SEB 1 month apart. The conditions, however, optimal for eliciting IgE responses led to a sustained failure to produce antibody of the IgG1 subclass. With the use of highly sensitized guinea pigs, one can achieve a sensitivity ranging from 0.1 to 1.0 pg of purified SEB by the direct skin test for at least 7 months after the last challenge. For analysis of SEB in food extracts, the entire assay can be accomplished within 20 min with a sensitivity of 10 to 100 pg SEB per ml of prepared food samples, and the recovery of enterotoxin from spiked food products ranged between 75 and 89% of the amount added.
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