Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo ()

Leptomonas seymouri and Crithidia fasciculata exoantigens can discriminate human cases of visceral leishmaniasis from American tegumentary leishmaniasis ones

  • Norival Kesper,
  • Marta Maria G. Teixeira,
  • José Angelo L. Lindoso,
  • Clara Lúcia Barbieri,
  • Eufrosina Setsu Umezawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946201759001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59, no. 0

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ABSTRACT Exoantigens (exo) from Leptomonas seymouri and Crithidia fasciculata were used in an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), showing 100% reactivity with sera from visceral leishmaniasis (VL) cases, and no reactivity with American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) ones. Our results have indicated that these exoantigens can be applied in the discrimination of VL and ATL cases.

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