Human IgE responses to rSm22.6 are associated with infection intensity rather than age per se, in a recently established focus of Schistomiasis mansoni

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 318-326

  Webster, M ^a   Roberts, M ^a   Fulford, A J C ^a   Marguerite, M ^b   Gallisot, M C ^b   Diagne, M ^b   Niang, M ^c   Riveau, G ^d   Capron, A ^d   Dunne, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratoire de Sor ESPOIR   (Senegal)

^c Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles   (Senegal)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Human IgE; Recombinant antigen; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REINFECTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENEGAL; UGANDA;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA; UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 7144254428     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00234.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Boris M, Weindorf S, Lasinski B & Boris G (1994) Lymphedema reduction by noninvasive complex lymphedema therapy. Oncology 8, 95-106.
2. Butterworth AE & Thorne KJI (1993) Eosinophils and parasitic diseases. In Immunopharmacology of eosinophils (eds. H. Smith and R. Cook), Academic Press, London. pp. 119-150.
3. Butterworth AE, Capron M & Cordingley JS et al. (1985) Immunity after treatment of human schistosomiasis mansoni. II. Identification of resistant individuals, and analysis of their immune responses. Transactions of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 79, 393-408.
4. Dunne DW, Butterworth AE & Fulford AJC et al. (1992) Immunity after treatment of human schistosomiasis: association between IgE antibodies to adult worm antigens and resistance to reinfection. European Journal of Immunology 22, 1483-1494.
5. Dunne DW, Webster M & Smith P et al. (1997) The isolation of a kDa band after SDS-PAGE of Schistosoma mansoni adult worms and its use to demonstrate that IgE responses against the antigen(s) it contains are associated with human resistance to reinfection. Parasite Immunology 19, 79-89.
6. Fallon PG, Fookes RE & Wharton G (1996) Temporal differences in praziquantel- and oxamniquine-induced tegumental damage to adult S. mansoni: Implications for drug-antibody synergy. Parasitology 112, 47-58.
7. Fulford AJC, Butterworth AE, Ouma JH & Sturrock RF (1995) A Statistical approach to schistosome population dynamics and estimation of the life-span of Schistosomiasis mansoni in man. Parasitology 110, 307-316.
8. Grogan JK, Kremsner PG & van Dam GJ et al. (1996a) Antischistosome IgG4 and IgE responses are affected differentially by chemotherapy in children versus adults. Journal of Infectious Diseases 173, 1242-1247.
9. Grogan JL, Kremsner PG, Deelder AM & Yazdanbakash M (1996b) Elevated proliferation and IL-4 release from CD4+ cells after chemotherapy in human Schistosoma haematobium. European Journal of Immunology 26, 1365-1370.
10. Gryseels B (1994) Human resistance to Schistosoma infections: age or experience?. Parasitology Today 10, 380-384.
11. Stelma FF, Talla I & Polman K et al. (1995) Epidemiology of Schistosomiasis mansoni infection in a recently exposed community in northern Senegal. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 49, 701-706.
12. Stem LD & David JR (1986) Cloning of a developmentally regulated tegument antigen of Schistosomiasis mansoni. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 20, 253-264.
13. Talla I, Kongs A, Verle P, Belot J, Sarr S & Coll AM (1990) Outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis in the Senegal river basin. Annales de la Societe Belge de Medicine Tropicale 70, 173-180.
14. Talla I, Kongs A & Verle P (1992) Preliminary study of the prevalence of human schistosomiasis in Richard-Toll (the Senegal River Basin). Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 86, 182
15. van Dam GJ, Stelma FF & Gryseels B et al. (1996) Antibody response patterns against Schistosomiasis mansoni in a recently exposed community in Senegal. Journal of Infectious Diseases 173, 1232-1241.
16. Webster M, Fulford AJC & Braun G et al. (1996) Human immunoglobulin E responses to a recombinant 22.6-kilodalton antigen from Schistosomiasis mansoni adult worms are associated with low intensities of reinfection after treatment. Infection and Immunity 64, 4042-4046.
17. Webster M, Fallon PG & Fulford AJC et al. (1997a) Effect of praziquantel and oxamniquine treatment on human isotype responses to Schistosomiasis mansoni: elevated IgE to adult worm. Parasite Immunology 19, 333-335.
18. Webster M, Fallon PG & Fulford AJC et al. (1997b) IgG4 and IgE responses to Schistosomiasis mansoni adult worm after treatment. Journal of Infectious Diseases 175, 493-494.
19. Webster M, Libranda-Ramirez BDL & Aligui GD et al. (1997c) The influence of sex and age on antibody isotype responses to schistosomiasis mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum in human populations in Kenya and the Philippines. Parasitology 114, 383-393.
20. Webster M, Correa-Oliveira R & Gazzinelli G et al. (1997d) Factors affecting high and low human IgE responses to schistosome worm antigens in an area of Brazil endemic for Schistosomiasis mansoni and hookworm. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 57, 487-494.