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Establishment of Indirect ELISA Method to Detect Q Fever Coxiella burnetii

WU Wen-jun1, 2,JIA Guang-le2,LIAO Juan-hong2,MEI Lin2,HAN Xue-qing2,LIN Xiang-mei2,ZHANG Ying1   

  1. 1.College of Animal Science and Technology,Shanxi Agricultural University,Taigu 030801,China;2.Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine,Beijing 100121,China)
  • Received:2013-09-23 Online:2014-04-20 Published:2014-05-27

Abstract: In this study, the whole bacteria protein of the Coxiella burnetii attenuated strain phase Ⅱ was used as the antigen and then the indirect ELISA to detect Q fever Coxiella burnetii was established. Through optimizing the concentration of the coated phase Ⅱ antigen, the concentration of the second antibody and the reaction condition, we confirmed that the critical value of this method was 0.44. 393 clinical bovine sera were detected by this method and IDEXX Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) Antibody Test Kit. The results showed that the sera positive detection rates were 11.45% and 6.10%, respectively. Compared with the results of the two detection methods, the coincidence was 94.66%. The results demonstrated that sensitivity and specificity of the established indirect ELISA detection method were better and it could be used for the clinical diagnosis of the antibody of Q fever Coxiella burnetii.

Key words: Q fever; Coxiella burnetii; indirect ELISA; phase Ⅱ antigen