Comparative evaluation of purified Taenia solium glycoproteins and crude metacestode extracts by immunoblotting for the serodiagnosis of human T. solium cysticercosis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 579-582

  Rodriguez Canul, Rossanna ^a   Allan, James C ^a   Fletes, Concha ^b   Sutisna, I Putu ^c   Kapti, I Nengah ^c   Craig, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Lab Clinico del Hospital General   (Guatemala)

^c UDAYANA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 0030769077     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.5.579-582.1997     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Bradford, M. M. 1976. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principles of protein-dye binding. Anal. Biochem. 72:248-254.
2. Chopra, J. S., U. Kaur, and R. C. Mahajan. 1981. Cysticercosis and epilepsy: a clinical and serological study. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 75:518-520.
3. Craig, P. S., M. T. Rogan, and J. C. Allan. 1995. Hydatidosis and cysticercosis - larval cestodes, p. 209-237. In S. H. Guillespie and P. M. Hawkey (ed.), Medical parasitology: a practical approach. IRL Press, London, England.
4. Diaz, F. J., M. Verastegui, R. H. Gilman, C. W. V. Tsang, B. J. Pilcher, C. Gallo, H. H. Garcia, P. Torres, T. Montenegro, E. Miranda, and the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru. 1992. Immunodiagnosis of human cysticercosis (Taenia solium): a field comparison of an antibody-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), an antigen-elisa, and an enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) assay in Peru. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 46:610-615.
5. Flisser, A. 1994. Taeniasis and cysticercosis due to Taenia solium. p. 77-115. In T. Sun (ed.), Progress in clinical parasitology. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Fia.
6. Fritzche, M., B. Gottstein, M. C. Wigglesworth, and J. Eckert. 1990. Serological survey of human cysticercosis in Iriancse refugee camps in Papua New Guinea. Acta Trop. 47:69-77.
7. Garcia Noval, J., J. C. Allan, C. Fletes, E. Moreno, F. de Mata, R. Torres-Alvarez, H. Soto de Alfaro, P. Yurritia, H. Higueros-Morales, F. Mencos, and P. S. Craig. 1996. Epidemiology of Taenia solium taeniasis and Cysticercosis in two rural Guatemalan communities. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 55:282-289.
8. Gottstein, B., V. C. W. Tsang, and P. M. Schantz. 1986. Demonstration of species-specific and cross-reactive components of Taenia solium metacestode antigens. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 35:308-313.
9. Gottstein, B., D. Zini, and P. M. Schantz. 1987. Species specific immunodiagnosis of Taenia solium cysticercosis by ELISA and immunoblotting. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 38:299-303.
10. Laemmli, U. K. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227:680-685.
11. Larralde, C., R. M. Montoya, E. Sciutto, M. L. Diaz, T. Govezensky, and E. Coltorti. 1989. Deciphering Western blots of tapeworm antigens (Taenia solium, Echinococcus granulosus, and Taenia crassiceps) reacting with sera from neurocysticercosis and hydatid disease patients. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 40:282-290.
12. Olmsted, J. B. 1981. Affinity purification of antibodies from diazotized paper blots of heterogeneous protein samples. J. Biol. Chem. 256:11955-11957.
13. Richard, F., and P. M. Schantz. 1991. Laboratory diagnosis of cysticercosis. Clin. Lab. Med. 4:1011-1028.
14. Sarti, E., P. M. Schantz, A. Plancarte, M. Wilson, I. O. Gutierrez, A. S. Lopez, J. Roberts, and A. Flisser. 1992. Prevalence and risk factor for Taenia solium in humans and pigs in a village in Morelos, Mexico. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 46:677-684.
15. Sarti, E., P. M. Schantz, M. Wilson, O. Gutierrez, J. Aguilera, J. Roberts, and A. Flisser. 1994. Epidemiological investigation of Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticerocisis in a rural village of Michoacan State, Mexico. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 88:49-52.
16. Schantz, P. M., E. Sarti, A. Plancarte, M. Wilson, J. L. Criales, J. Roberts, and A. Flisser. 1994. Community-based epidemiological investigations of cystsicercosis due to Taenia solium: comparison of serological screening tests and clinical findings in two populations in Mexico. Clin. Infect. Dis. 18:879-885.
17. Smith, D. E., and P. A. Fisher. 1984. Identification, developmental regulation, and response to heat shock of two antigenically related forms of a major nuclear envelope protein in Drosophila embryos: application of an improved method for affinity purification of antibodies using polypeptides immobilized on nitrocellulose blots. J. Cell Biol. 99:20-28.
18. Towbin, H., T. Staehelin, and J. Gordon. 1979. Electrophoresis transfer of protein from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76:14350-14354.
19. Tsang, V. C. W., J. M. Peralta, and A. R. Simons. 1983. Enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot techniques (EITB) for studying the specificities of antigens and antibodies separated by gel electrophoresis. Methods Enzymol. 92:377-391.
20. Tsang, V. C. W., J. A. Brand, and A. F. Boyer. 1989. An enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay and glycoprotein antigens for diagnosing human cysticercosis (Taenia solium). J. Infect. Dis. 159:50-58.
21. Wilson, M., R. Bryan, J. Fried, D. Ware, P. Schantz, J. B. Pilcher, and V. C. W. Tsang. 1991. Clinical evaluation of the cysticercosis enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot in patients with neurocysticercosis. J. Infect. Dis. 164:1007-1009.