Article
Effect of normal and immune sera on Haemophilus ducreyi 35000HP and its isogenic MOMP and LOS mutants.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Feb 1999
Hiltke T J, Bauer M E, Klesney-Tait J, Hansen E J, Munson R S, Spinola S M
Abstract excerpt
A bactericidal assay was developed in order to test the effect of hyperimmune rabbit sera on the viability of serum-resistant Haemophilus ducreyi 35000HP. Testing of several lots of rabbit complement and time course experiments showed that the serum-sensitive H. ducreyi CIPA77 was killed efficiently by 25% complement at 35 degrees C in 3 h. We hypothesized that incubation of 35000HP under these conditions with...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Blood Bactericidal Activity
- Blotting, Western
- Chancroid
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Complement System Proteins
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
