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Serodiagnosis of human neurocysticercosis using antigenic components of Taenia solium metacestodes derived from the unbound fraction from jacalin affinity chromatography

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Title
Serodiagnosis of human neurocysticercosis using antigenic components of Taenia solium metacestodes derived from the unbound fraction from jacalin affinity chromatography
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, May 2013
DOI 10.1590/s0074-02762013000300016
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Gleyce Alves Machado, Heliana Batista de Oliveira, Margareth Leitão Gennari-Cardoso, José Roberto Mineo, Julia Maria Costa-Cruz

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to analyse Taenia solium metacestode antigens that were derived from the unbound fraction of jacalin affinity chromatography and subsequent tert-octylphenoxy poly (oxyethylene) ethanol Triton X-114 (TX-114) partitioning in the diagnosis of human neurocysticercosis (NCC). Immunoassays were designed to detect T. solium-specific IgG antibodies by ELISA and immunoblot. Serum samples were collected from 132 individuals who were categorised as follows: 40 had NCC, 62 presented Taenia spp or other parasitic diseases and 30 were healthy individuals. The jacalin-unbound (J unbound ) fraction presented higher sensitivity and specificity rates than the jacalin-bound fraction and only this fraction was subjected to subsequent TX-114 partitioning, resulting in detergent (DJ unbound ) and aqueous (AJ unbound ) fractions. The ELISA sensitivity and specificity were 85% and 84.8% for J unbound , 92.5% and 93.5% for DJ unbound and 82.5% and 82.6% for AJ unbound . By immunoblot, the DJ unbound fraction showed 100% sensitivity and specificity and only serum samples from patients with NCC recognised the 50-70 kDa T. solium-specific components. We conclude that the DJ unbound fraction can serve as a useful tool for the differential immunodiagnosis of NCC by immunoblot.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 23%
Student > Master 5 19%
Professor 3 12%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Other 5 19%
Unknown 3 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 27%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 8%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 3 12%
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