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Abstract

This pilot study examined the change in the seroprevalence of the enteroaggregative (EAEC) virulence factor dispersin in USA students during a short stay in Cuernavaca, Mexico, between June and August 2004. One hundred and ninety-five students provided paired serum samples – one on arrival to Mexico (pre-serum) and a second on departure from Mexico (post-serum) after a mean stay of 19 days. Serum samples were tested for IgG antibody to a recombinant purified dispersin protein by ELISA. For all travellers, with and without diarrhoea, the mean± pre-serum absorbance value (read at 450 and 570 nm) was 0.340±0.212 and the mean post-serum value was 0.513±0.316 (<0.00001). Both travellers who developed diarrhoea and those who did not develop diarrhoea had an increase in IgG antibody to dispersin from the time of arrival to the time of departure from Cuernavaca (diarrhoea group 0.323±0.197 to 0.501±0.311, <0.00001, and the asymptomatic group 0.354±0.224 to 0.525±0.321, <0.00001). The pre-serum absorbance value (read at 450 and 570 nm) for IgG antibody to dispersin was not associated with protection against the development of diarrhoeal illness. These results indicate that USA travellers to Mexico show seroconversion for the EAEC virulence factor dispersin. Further studies are needed to characterize in more detail the host clinical and immunological responses to the dispersin protein.

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