Analysis of Toxoplasma gondii antigens recognized by human sera obtained before and after acute infection.
Analysis of Toxoplasma gondii antigens recognized by human sera obtained before and after acute infection.
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急性感染前后获得的人血清识别的弓形虫抗原的分析。
DOI:
10.1093/infdis/154.4.650
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发表时间:
1986
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Remington,JS
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作者:
Potasman,I;Araujo,FG;Desmonts,G;Remington,JS
The antibody response toToxoplasma gondiiwas studied in human serum samples obtained before and during acute infection withT. gondii. Analysis was by the Sabin-Feldman dye test, double-sandwich IgM ELISA, agglutination test, and protein blots of toxoplasma antigens. Seventeen patients were studied: 12pregnant women, 2 heart transplant recipients, and 3 symptomatic but immunologically normal individuals. Both IgM and IgG protein blots of the first serologically positive serum sample from each patient revealed new bands, as well as intensified staining of bands noted with the serologically negative serum samples. In each patient, bands corresponding to antigens of ∼4 kilodaltons (kDa; IgM blots) and of ∼35 kDa (IgG) were the most intensely stained. In one patient, IgM antibodies to the 4-kDa antigen(s) were demonstrable by protein blots before they were demonstrable by IgM ELISA. IgG protein blots of sera from individuals with chronic infection withT. gondiirevealed weakly reactive antibodies to both the 4-kDa and 35-kDa antigens; these bands were not demonstrable in the IgM blots.