Immunoenzimatic detection of the Clostridium tetani bacterial toxin: an alternative to mice bioassays

 

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Autori: Chaves, Fernando, León, Guillermo, Hernández Chavarría, Francisco
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2006
Descrizione:Cell-free extracts from 20 strains of Clostridium tetani isolated from soil samples, were tested for tetanus toxin production using an enzyme immunoassay. All the extracts were classified as positive for the toxin presence, and eight of them showed absorbance values corresponding to tetanus toxin concentrations between 3.2 and 88 ng/ml; thus, they fell within the linear absorbance range (0.135-0.317). All dilutions of toxin used to obtain the calibration curve (0.0071 to 1.1 ng) were lethal for mice.
Stato:Portal de Revistas UCR
Istituzione:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/14108
Accesso online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/14108
Access Level:acceso abierto
Keyword:clostridium tetani
tetanus toxin
enzyme immunoassay
biological assay