Persistence of secretory antiamoebic antibodies in patients with past invasive intestinal or hepatic amoebiasis

Autor: Alejandro Gómez, Cecilia Ximénez, Onofre Muñoz, Fernando Ramos, Manuel Ramiro, Enrique González, Alicia Valadez, Emma I. Melendro, Patricia Morán, Olivia Valenzuela
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Parasitology Research. 87:849-852
ISSN: 1432-1955
0932-0113
Popis: In the present work, it was demonstrated that in amoebic dysentery and amoebic liver abscess patients, the secretory response is long-lasting (> 12 months); and 50% of amoebic dysentery patients developed circulating antiamoebic IgG in comparison with 100% of amoebic liver abscess individuals. A total of 83% of these individuals developed high levels of serum anti-Entamoeba histolytica IgA. However, only 10.4% of the dysentery patients showed this anti-E. histolytica antibody isotype in serum. There was no correlation between secretory and serum antiamoebic response, suggesting independent inductive and effector sites in both compartments.
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