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- Title
Human milk secretory antibodies against attaching and effacing Escherichia coli antigens.
- Authors
Noguera-Obenza, Marita; Ochoa, Theresa J.; Gomez, Henry F.; Guerrero, M. Lourdes; Herrera-Insua, Irene; Morrow, Ardythe L.; Ruiz-Palacios, Guillermo; Pickering, Larry K.; Guzman, Carlos A.; Cleary, Thomas G.
- Abstract
Secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) is a primary factor responsible for preventing attachment of enteropathogens to gut epithelium in breastfeeding infants. We compared the frequency of sIgA to major surface antigens of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) in milk of 123 women from the United States and Mexico to determine whether regional differences existed in the frequency of antibodies to these surface antigens. In both groups of women, milk commonly has sIgA against various EHEC lipopolysaccharides, EspA, EspB, intimin, and less frequently against Shiga toxin. The study suggests that persons living in the United States are exposed to attaching/effacing enteropathogens more frequently than is generally assumed. The low frequency of antibodies to Stx1 (in 12% of Mexican and in 22% of U.S. samples) suggests that the rare appearance of hemolytic uremic syndrome in adults is not due to neutralization of toxin at the gut level. Only anti-EspA is found in most milk samples from both populations of women. EspA may represent a useful target for an immunization strategy to prevent EHEC disease in humans.
- Subjects
MEXICO; VIRGINIA; BREAST milk; ESCHERICHIA coli; ANTIGENS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN analysis; BACTERIAL antigens; BACTERIAL toxins; COMPARATIVE studies; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; MEMBRANE proteins; PROTEINS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH evaluation; EVALUATION research; BACTERIAL antibodies
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003, Vol 9, Issue 5, p545
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid0905.020441