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Infect Immun. 1972 September; 6(3): 248-254
Copyright © 1972 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of Different Measles Virus-Specific Antibodies in the Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis and Multiple Sclerosis ¹

The Department of Virology, Karolinska Institutet, School of Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Virology and Department of Neurology, University of Turku, Finland

ABSTRACT

Matched serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from eight cases of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) and 15 cases of multiple sclerosis (MS) were characterized in neutralization, hemolysis-inhibition (HLI), hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) with Tween 80—ether-treated antigen, complement-fixation (CF), and immunodiffusion tests. CF tests were carried out with crude virus material, purified nucleocapsids, and small particle hemagglutinin as antigens. A certain diversity in the relative content of antibodies against different virus products in various sera was found. There was a high degree of correlation between titers of neutralizing and HLI antibodies, but a less strict correlation between titers of HLI and HI antibodies. Serum samples from two cases of MS and one case of SSPE contained high titers of HLI and neutralizing antibodies in the presence of only low titers of HI antibodies demonstrable with Tween 80—ether-treated antigen. The major fraction of antibodies detected in CF and immunodiffusion tests reacted with nucleocapsids. There was a tendency of nucleocapsid CF antibody titers, as compared to neutralization and HLI antibody titers, to be higher in samples from patients with SSPE than from cases of MS. No significant differences were found between antibody titers recorded in neutralization, HLI, and HI tests carried out with two different measles virus strains, Edmonston and a strain (LEC) derived from a case of SSPE. Comparison of antibodies against measles virus products and, as a reference, against a group-specific vertex capsomer antigen of adenovirus in matched serum and CSF samples revealed a production of measles virus-specific antibodies within the central nervous system of all cases of SSPE and 8 out of 15 cases of MS.

¹ The major part of this work was carried out during a visit of A. A. Salmi to the Department of Virology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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