Detection of Q Fever Specific Antibodies Using Recombinant Antigen in ELISA with Peroxidase Based Signal Amplification

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Origin</td><td align="center">Disease</td><td align="center">Number</td><td align="center">No<sup>a</sup> (%) <br/>positive</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">France</td><td align="center">Murine typhus</td><td align="center">20</td><td align="center">1 (5)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">France</td><td align="center">Spotted fever-type rickettsioses</td><td align="center">26</td><td align="center">1 (4)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Peru</td><td align="center">Oroya fever</td><td align="center">28</td><td align="center">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Taiwan</td><td align="center">Scrub typhus</td><td align="center">27</td><td align="center">1 (4)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Thailand</td><td align="center">Murine typhus</td><td align="center">25</td><td align="center">1 (4)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Thailand</td><td align="center">Spotted fever-type rickettsioses</td><td align="center">30</td><td align="center">1 (3) </td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td> <sup>a</sup>Sera that have antibody (IgG or IgM) levels above cutoff in amplified method.<br/></td></tr></table>

List of archived samples used to determine the specificity of the rCom1 ELISA. 

International Journal of Bacteriology

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Table 4: Detection of Q Fever Specific Antibodies Using Recombinant Antigen in ELISA with Peroxidase Based Signal Amplification 