Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo (Dec 1984)

Anti-leishmania igA immunoenzymatic assay in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (Preliminary report)

  • M. Carolina S. Guimarães,
  • Antonio Walter Ferreira,
  • Márcia B. de Carvalho,
  • Beatriz J. Celeste,
  • Luiz Carlos Cucé,
  • Walter Belda Jr.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651984000600011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 6
pp. 353 – 356

Abstract

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The Authors describe an anti-Leishmania IgA-ELISA assay in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. Increased titers were found in leishmaniasis patients, mainly in the first and second year of infection and in deep mycoses patients showing either mucosal involvement or widespread disease.