Abstract
Hamsters immunized with human cytomegalovirus (CMV) concentrated and purified by polyethylene glycol precipitation and density gradient centrifugation produced antisera with high titers of specific viral antibody, and which showed no significant reactivity with human host cell components. The antisera had high titers of CMV antibody in complement fixation, indirect fluorescent-antibody (FA), and neutralization tests, but titers obtained by indirect radioimmunoassay (RIA) were markedly higher. The antisera were used to follow the development of CMV antigen in infected host cells by indirect RIA and indirect FA staining. Virus-specific antigen was first detectable by RIA at 8 h after infection, and by FA staining at 16 h; cells contained optimal amounts of antigen for RIA and FA assays at 72 to 100 h postinfection. Immune globulins from the antisera were labeled with 125I for use in direct RIA. The labeled globulins gave highly specific reactions with CMV-infected cells, including those infected with low-passage isolates, and showed no reactivity with cells infected with other human herpesviruses or certain other human viruses.
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