Polyclonal anti-intimin antibody: immunological characterization and its use in EPEC and EHEC diagnosis

Intimins are outer membrane proteins expressed by enteric bacterial pathogens capable of inducing intestinalattachment-and-effacement lesion (A/E). Through immunoblotting, immunofluorescence, flow citometry andimmunogold we observed that the obtained polyclonal antibody against conserved intimin region recognizesthe different intimin subtypes and suggests that it can be used as a tool for EPEC and EHEC detection.Besides, immuno-dot assay seems to be a possible alternative as a capture method.