TY - JOUR
AU - Torres, Norma
AB - THE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES • VOL. 152, NO.2. AUGUST 1985 © 1985 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0022-1899/85/5202-0028$01.00 Campy/obacter jejuni is an important cause of diarrhea Serum specimens were stored at - 70 C, and all stool in humans throughout the world [1-3]. It is capable of in­ specimens were examined for leukocytes. Isolation and testinal invasion [4, 5], but also, C. jejuni can induce a identification of Salmonella, Shigella, Campy/obaeter, secretory diarrhea such as that caused by enterotoxin­ Aeromonas, Yersinia, and E. coli was performed by using producing organisms, especially in children [2]. Our find­ standard procedures [8]. Seven E. coli isolates from each ing that some strains of C. jejuni isolated from patients stool sample were tested for LT with the use of the Chi­ with diarrhea produced an enterotoxin [6] has been con­ nese hamster ovary (CHO) cell assay [9] and for heat-stable firmed by others [7]. C. jejuni toxin is heat labile and im­ toxin with the use of the newborn mice assay [10]. munologically related to cholera toxin and to the heat-labile Enteropathogenic E. coli were serotyped by using com­ toxin (LT) of Escherichia coli and its B subunit. mercial 
TI - Serum Antibodies to Heat-Labile Enterotoxin of Campylobacter jejuni
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/152.2.413
DA - 1985-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/serum-antibodies-to-heat-labile-enterotoxin-of-campylobacter-jejuni-oSILYOgb7J
SP - 413
EP - 416
VL - 152
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -