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The results of earlier clinical, pathomorphological, and immunological studies of organic visceral and tissue lesions in helminthic infections [2, 3, 8, 10, 11, 14, 46] and present clinical and immunological ones [4-6, 44, 45] were analyzed and discussed in the light of a fundamental literature data review. The chronic visceral pathology in tissue-dwelling helminthic infections is associated with super- and reinfections [1, 2, 16, 36], with an inadequate immune response of humans to the invasion of zoonotic agents [2, 6, 13, 20] and with an individual invalidity of an immune response to infections [1, 2, 6, 16, 54]. The persistent course of infections, especially zoonotic, leads to organic pathology, sometimes irreversible [2, 13, 15, 21, 34, 46] if an individual (population) does not respond by immunity or by acquired (inherited) tolerance of invasion [1, 2, 3, 11, 16, 20, 36]. Transplacental transfer of Opisthorchis felineus antigens in the hyperendemic foci of the infection does not prevent superinfections, but does prevent the acute phase of disease and significantly mitigates the organic lesions in the chronic phase in spite of a very high intensity of infection [7, 10, 11]. Paramyosines (Pmes), proteins expressed on the tegument of Schistosoma mansoni and S. japonicum, show their immunogenic effect [42]. Antibodies to PM of Lumbricoidea and to a cardiac muscle myosin peptide (alpha-mp), known to induce experimental allergic myosites [55], were revealed in the sera of 32 trichinellosis, toxocarosis, opisthorchiasis, and hydatid echinococcosis patients with organic visceral abnormalities. The levels of antibodies against alpha-mp correlated with the severity of pathology [44]. S. mansoni PM peptide smp97 is a homologue of alpha-mp [25]. This fact suggests that there is a relationship between the development of an immune response to Pmes immunological processes in helminthiases. The relationship between organic visceral pathology and a competitive with serum IgE serum IgG4 hyperproduction at the early [6] and late stages of the studied helminthic infections was revealed. One may resume that this balance of production of these isotypes is not beneficial for the development of disease as IgG4-antibody hyperproduction is not beneficial for reinfection resistance [26, 28, 54]. One of the mechanisms may be serum IgG4 blocking the antibody-dependent cytotoxic effect, as it was supposed for unspecific IgE hyperproduction [47]. The selected development of cardiomyopathy or obstructive fibrosis in the lung after trichinellosis [2, 6, 45], endomyocardiofibrosis in the foci of filariases [21, 31] suggests that their development like resistance or susceptibility to infections [54] should be programmed. |
