Antigenic changes in Campylobacter spp. after adaptation to media with increased sodium chloride concentrations
Glünder, G.
Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift 107(4): 109-115
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0005-9366 PMID: 7993347 Document Number: 438884
Changes in antigenic pattern were demonstrated in Campylobacter strains adapted to growth at 3% NaCl in the medium by means of immunodot blot, the immunoprecipitation test and immunoblotting. Heat-labile and heat stable antigens of the salt-tolerant variants of Campylobacter type-strains showed differences from their parental strains after cross-absorption of antisera. It was suggested that the antigenic structure of the flagellum and possibly of the outer membrane proteins had changed by adaptation of strains to higher salt concentrations.