Syntheses and Immunologic Properties of Escherichia coli O157 O-Specific Polysaccharide and Shiga Toxin 1 B Subunit Conjugates in Mice

AUTOR(ES)

Konadu, Edward

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Escherichia coli O157 is the major cause of diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Strains causing HUS contain either Shiga toxin 1 (Stx1) or Stx2, or both. In adult volunteers, conjugate vaccines of detoxified lipopolysaccharide (LPS) elicited bactericidal antibodies to E. coli O157. Here, the detoxified LPS was conjugated with improved schemes to the nontoxic B subunit of Stx1. Mice injected with these bivalent conjugates elicited both bactericidal antibodies to E. coli O157 and neutralization antibodies to Stx1.

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