Domestic swine in a visceral leishmaniasis endemic area produce antibodies against multiple Leishmania infantum antigens but apparently resist to L. infantum infection

Acta Tropica

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 176-182

  Moraes Silva, Evandro ^a,b   Antunes, Fabiana Rodrigues ^a   Rodrigues, Marcio Silva ^a   da Silva Julião, Fred ^b   Dias Lima, Artur Gomes ^a   Lemos de Sousa, Valderez ^a   de Alcantara, Adriano Costa ^b   Reis, Eliana Almeida Gomes ^a   Nakatani, Maria ^b   Badaró, Roberto ^b   Reis, Mitermayer Galvão ^a   Pontes de Carvalho, Lain ^a   Franke, Carlos Roberto ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Experimental infection; Immune response; Pig; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; DNA; ENDEMIC SPECIES; MAMMAL; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PIG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MARROW; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HAMSTER; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMASTIGOTE; PSYCHODIDAE; SEROLOGY; SPLEEN; SWINE; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAZIL; CRICETINAE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 33744469568     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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