Pennie & Edmonds LLP
Methods for detecting Campylobacter bacteria or antibodies to Campylobacter bacteria with an immunoassay
 This invention relates generally to in vitro methods for inducing or enhancing expression of enteric bacterial antigens and/or virulence factors thereby producing antigenically enhanced enteric bacteria, to methods for using antigenically enhanced enteric bacteria and to vaccines comprising antigenically enhanced enteric bacteria. A Campylobacter bacterium having enhanced antigenic property is disclosed. A culture medium useful for culturing the Campylobacteria comprises 0.05% to 3% bile or 0.025% to 0.6% of one or more bile acids or salts. In addition a divalent cation chelator can also be included in the culture medium. The bacteria culture is in a growth phase at early log phase and between early log phase and stationary phase. The enhanced antigenic property is a higher level of an immunogenic antigen when compared to the antigenic property of the same bacteria grown on brain heart infusion broth. Also, antibodies to Campylobacter bacteria or Campylobacteria in samples are detected by immunoassays. 
Antex Biologics Inc.
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Steven Michael John Lee Richard Ives
Frey Pace Walker