[A method of fluorescent immunoenzyme analysis in the complex evaluation of viral and rickettsial vaccines]. / Metod immunofermentnogo fliuorestsentnogo analiza v kompleksnoi otsenke virusnykh i rikketsioznykh vaktsin.

With the use of the unified indirect solid-phase fluorescent enzyme immunoassay the combined evaluation of the antigenic and immunogenic properties of experimental whole-virion inactivated virus vaccines against Venezuelan and eastern equine encephalomyelitides, as well as of dried chemical typhus vaccine, has been made; their safety was determined indirectly by the content of ovalbumin. The protective role of antibodies evaluated by the solid-phase fluorescent enzyme immunoassay in typhus immunity has been shown.

Vacunas contra rickettsias / Vaccines against rickettsias

Las rickettsias son transmitidas por la picadura de garrapatas y ácaros infectados o por la contaminación de la piel o membranas mucosas con heces de piojos o pulgas. La epidemiología se presenta en varias enfermedades: tifo epidémico, tifo murino, tifo escrofular, fiebre manchada de las montañas rocallosas y fiebre Q. En el aspecto histórico de las vacunas anti-rickettsiales, observando retrospectivamente, se concluye que el fracaso de esos intentos -iniciados antes de 1940- no es sorprendente dada la heterogeneidad antigénica de las cepas de esta especie. Los esfuerzos actuales para el desarrollo de las vacunas anti-rickettsiales están enfocados en la clonación de los genes que codifican para la proteína R. prowaseki; producirla mediante la tecnología del DNA recombinante y evaluar la proteína así expresada como probable vacuna. Aunque tales enfoque novedosos son prometedores, la prueba definitiva de eficiencia es la capacidad de la vacuna para proteger humanos expuestos a la infección con rickettsias

Reproduction of vaccine and virulent Rickectsia prow azeki strains in continuous cell lines at different temperatures.

The features of intracellular development of the virulent Breinl strain and 3 vaccine E strains of Rickettsia prowazeki have been followed in continuous FL, McCoy, and B cell cultures at temperatures of 30, 35, 37, 38.5 and 40 degrees C. The virulent Breinl strain multiplied well at these temperatures in McCoy and B cells but in had been gradually lost when cultured at 40 degrees C in FL cells. In contrast to the virulent Breinl strain the vaccine E strains have lost their capacity of long term reproduction at 38.5 degrees C. At 40 degrees C the E strains did not multiply in and had been eliminated from the McCoy and B cells; thus the vaccine E strains revealed a ts-phenotype and, accordingly, it was found to represent a ts-mutant.