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L Stipkovits

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The possible role of ureaplasma in a continuous infertility problem in turkeys.

A turkey-breeding operation in Eastern Europe had been suffering from an infertility problem for about 1 year. During the first visit of the investigation, ureaplasma was isolated from 4 out of 10 toms and 3 out of 5 hens randomly selected from a flock of 250 males and 2,200 females. The candled fertility at the time of investigation was 66%. Twelve weeks later, ureaplasma was isolated from five out of five hens from a flock that had a candled fertility of 51%, whereas no isolations were made from five out of five hens that had a fertility of 94%. Stained preparations of semen were evaluated, demonstrating an increased number of stressed abnormal spermatozoa. Histopathological lesions suggestive of a mycoplasma infection were observed in the oviduct of females. Several tests were conducted for various viral and bacterial infections and for the presence of mycotoxins in the feed; all were negative.

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Evaluation of a monoclonal blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of Mycoplasma gallisepticum-specific antibodies.

A monoclonal blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (blocking-ELISA) was developed to detect antibodies to Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) in poultry sera with the help of a peroxidase-labeled monoclonal antibody (MAb) recognizing an epitope of a 56-kilodalton polypeptide (p56) of MG. Immunoglobulins from undiluted MG-positive sera prevent the MAb conjugate from attaching to its specific binding site on p56, which results in no color development. The opposite result--a strong color reaction--was obtained after incubation with MG-negative sera (or when no serum was added before the MAb conjugate). Results were expressed in percent inhibition or ELISA titers. The blocking-ELISA detected 84.7% positive chickens in an experimentally infected flock and 72.6% of chickens in naturally infected flocks, whereas the hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test was positive only with 68.4% and 48.6% of these serum samples, respectively. All HI-positive serum samples reacted positively in blocking-ELISA. Of sera negative by the HI test, 51.6% and 46.8% proved to be positive when examined with the blocking-ELISA. Overall agreement between the ELISA and HI test was 76.8%. Infection with closely related M. synoviae did not induce any false-positive reactions in blocking-ELISA. There was a strong positive correlation between HI and blocking-ELISA titers (r = 0.83).

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Detection of specific antibodies directed against a consistently expressed surface antigen of Mycoplasma gallisepticum using a monoclonal blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Sera from 14 groups of chickens inoculated with different laboratory and field strains of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) were used to compare the diagnostic potential of the hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test and a recently developed monoclonal blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). HI was performed with strain A5969, commonly used as hemagglutinating antigen, and it could detect 62.7% of the inoculated chickens as positive. Of all sera, 83% proved to be positive when examined with the blocking ELISA. The difference between the sensitivities of the two methods was due to group-specific insensitivity of the HI test. None of the sera from groups inoculated with strains K 1501, K 1503, K 503, or K 703 and only half of the sera from groups inoculated with K 1453 or 236C could inhibit the activity of the A5969 hemagglutinating antigen, indicating antigenic differences between these challenge strains and the diagnostic strain. ELISA detected MG-specific antibodies in every group of sera, although inoculation with variant strains K 503 or K 703 resulted in lower level of antibody production than inoculation with other strains. The monoclonal blocking ELISA can be useful in the serological diagnosis of MG infections, because it is based on a consistently expressed, specific region of MG.

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Monoclonal antibodies to Mycoplasma gallisepticum membrane proteins.

Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were prepared to study the immunogenesis of Mycoplasma gallisepticum. Balb/c mice were immunized with M. gallisepticum immunostimulating complexes and the supernatant of heterokaryotes screened with M. gallisepticum and closely related M. synoviae as antigens in indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. All selected MAbs proved to be M. gallisepticum species-specific when they were tested against 10 different avian Mycoplasma species. After immunoblotting analysis, five polypeptides were identified with estimated molecular weights of 110,000, 66,000, 64,000, 56,000, and 50,000. Cell membrane localization of the recognized polypeptides was studied by immunoelectron microscopy. None of the MAbs inhibited the hemagglutinating activity of freshly prepared M. gallisepticum. However, one MAb (B3) specific for p56 agglutinated the stained M. gallisepticum antigen in the slide agglutination test. Results seemed to correlate with published information on the protein composition and agglutinating activity of Mycoplasma gallisepticum.

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