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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, November 2000, p. 915-919, Vol. 7, No. 6
Department of Molecular Biology, National Research Center, Dokki,
Cairo, Egypt
Received 28 April 2000/Returned for modification 23 June
2000/Accepted 25 August 2000
A combined cell culture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
(CCC-ELISA) was developed for measuring the neutralizing antipoliovirus antibodies in human sera. The binding of different concentrations of
each of the three poliovirus types to BGM cells in the presence and
absence of a constant dilution from each test and reference serum was
measured in the CCC-ELISA. The titers of the viruses neutralized by
each serum were measured with the titration curves and used for
interpretation of neutralizing titers to the three poliovirus types.
Analysis of human sera revealed that the sensitivity and specificity of
the CCC-ELISA and the microneutralization assay were comparable. The
CCC-ELISA is nonsubjective, rapid, and highly reproducible.
Furthermore, the CCC-ELISA could potentially be used as a
seroepidemiologic tool for assessment of the humoral response to the
cell culture infectious viruses.
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Combined Cell Culture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent
Assay for Quantification of Poliovirus Neutralization- Relevant
Antibodies
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