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Thepresent study was designed to develop a highly sensitive and specific indirectELISA in both a microtitre plate and dot-blot format employing the recombinantouter-membrane protein 28 (rOmp28). Cloning and expression of<jats:italic>Brucella melitensis<\/jats:italic>Omp28 protein, which is a group 3 antigen, was accomplishedby PCR amplification and cloning of the gene in a pET-28a expression system,followed by Ni-NTA affinity chromatography purification of the His-taggedrecombinant protein. An indirect ELISA in both a microtitre plate and dot-blotformat was optimized with sera collected from three groups: culture-confirmedcases, clinically suspected cases and healthy individuals. The rOmp28 proteinreacted only with the culture-confirmed positive samples and no reaction wasobserved with culture-negative samples, confirming the immunoreactivity ofthe recombinant protein. The test in both formats had a correlation of approximately90\u200a% with the Rose Bengal plate agglutination test (RBPT)and a standard tube agglutination test, assays that are routinely performedfor the serodiagnosis of brucellosis. The sensitivity and specificity of theassay in the plate format were 97.50 and 85.59\u200a%, and in thedot-blot format were 82.05 and 92.43%, respectively, in comparisonwith RBPT. The specificity of this assay was further confirmed by testingsamples that were positive for malaria and typhoid, which gave negative results.This ELISA system in microtitre plates and a dot-blot format will be usefulfor the rapid screening of large numbers of samples for the diagnosis of humanbrucellosis in endemic areas.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1099\/jmm.0.017566-0","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,1,15]],"date-time":"2010-01-15T01:34:12Z","timestamp":1263519252000},"page":"421-428","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Cloning and expression of the immunoreactive Brucella melitensis 28\u2005kDa outer-membrane protein (Omp28) encoding geneand evaluation of the potential of Omp28 for clinical diagnosis of brucellosis"],"prefix":"10.1099","volume":"59","author":[{"given":"Duraipandian","family":"Thavaselvam","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Microbiology, Defence Research & Development Establishment,Jhansi Road, Gwalior 474 002, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ashu","family":"Kumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Microbiology, Defence Research & Development Establishment,Jhansi Road, Gwalior 474 002, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sapana","family":"Tiwari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Microbiology, Defence Research & Development Establishment,Jhansi Road, Gwalior 474 002, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Manvi","family":"Mishra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Microbiology, Defence Research & Development Establishment,Jhansi Road, Gwalior 474 002, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Archana","family":"Prakash","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Microbiology, Defence Research & Development Establishment,Jhansi Road, Gwalior 474 002, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"345","reference":[{"key":"R1","first-page":"577","article-title":"Laboratory based diagnosis of brucellosis \u2013a review of the literature. 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