Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo (Aug 1989)

Analysis of the specificity of human antibodies to antigens of Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis

  • Aoi Masuda,
  • Sueli Fátima do Nascimento,
  • Carmem Silvia Guerra,
  • Gláucia da Silva Paranhos,
  • Antonio Walter Ferreira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651989000400004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 4
pp. 228 – 234

Abstract

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The antigenicity of promastigotes of Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis (L. b.braziliensis) treated with 1% sodium desoxycholate in 10 mM Tris-Hcl pH 8.2 was analysed by immunoblot using as probes sera from American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL), American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL), schistosomiasis, malaria and Chagas' disease. The ACL sera reacted constantly with a 60 kD band. No reactivity to this protein was observed with sera from the other diseases above mentioned indicating that the 60 kD protein may be used in serodiagnosis for ACL.

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