PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM-SPECIFIC IMMUNOGLOBULIN-G (IGG), IGM, AND IGE ANTIBODIES IN PAIRED MATERNAL-CORD SERA FROM EAST SEPIK PROVINCE, PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA
PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM-SPECIFIC IMMUNOGLOBULIN-G (IGG), IGM, AND IGE ANTIBODIES IN PAIRED MATERNAL-CORD SERA FROM EAST SEPIK PROVINCE, PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA
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DOI:
10.1128/iai.61.3.988-993.1993
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发表时间:
1993-03-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
ALPERS, MP
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作者:
DESOWITZ, RS;ELM, J;ALPERS, MP
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and Western blot (immunoblot) serological analyses for immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, and IgE antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum were made from 46 maternal-cord serum pairs obtained from parturient East Sepik (Papua New Guinea) women and their newborn. Concurrent study of these women had shown that placental parasitemia rates were related to parity with the highest rate (41%) in the primiparous group and the lowest rate (3%) in the women who had given birth more than three times (>3 parity group). Overall ELISA positivity rates for antimalarial IgG, IgM, and IgE antibodies in the maternal sera were 54.3, 28.2, and 8.3%, respectively, while those for the cord sera were 36.9, 0, and 16.6% respectively. Seropositivity rates were not related to maternal parity group, except for maternal IgE, in which there was a higher rate, of borderline significance, in the >3 parity group than in the primiparous group. Cord IgE positivity was largely independent of maternal positivity and vice versa. Cord and maternal IgG immunoblot pairs showed near homology. IgG antibodies to the P. falciparum antigens of sizes