Evaluation of the enzyme-linked-immuno-electro-diffusion-assay (ELIEDA) for the diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni infection with low worm burden Avaliação da técnica de ELIEDA (enzyme-linked-immuno-electro-diffusion-assay) para o diagnóstico da infecção pelo Schistosoma mansoni de baixa carga

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Grace Mary Leal-Bacelar, Hermínia Y. Kanamura, Sumie Hoshino-Shimizu, Dirce Mary C. Lima, Clarice P. Abrantes-Lemos, Luiz Caetano da Silva
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1995
• Subjects: Schistosoma mansoni; Immunodiagnosis; ELIEDA; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Rif
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651995000200006; https://doaj.org/article/932865b555b74d14800b9e65e599028a

An immunoprecipitation technique, ELIEDA (enzyme-linked-immuno-electro-diffusion assay), was evaluated for the diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni infection with low worm burden. One hundred of serum samples from patients excreting less than 600 eggs per gram of feces (epg), with unrelated diseases and clinically healthy subjects were studied. In patients with egg counts higher than 200 epg, the sensitivities of IgM and IgG ELIEDA were 1.000 and 0.923, respectively, not differing from other Serologic techniques, such as indirect hemaglutination (IHAT), immunofluorescence (IFT) tests and immuno-electrodiffusion assay (IEDA). However in patients with low egg counts (< 100 epg), the IgG ELIEDA provided better results (0.821) than IgM ELIEDA (0.679), showing sensitivity that did not differ from that of IgG IFT (0.929), but lower than that of IgM IFT (0.964). However, its sensivity was higher than that found with IHAT (0.607) and IEDA (0.536). The specificity of IgG ELIEDA was comparable to that of other techniques. The data indicate that IgG ELIEDA might be useful for the diagnosis of slight S. mansoni infections, and the cellulose acetate membrane strips can be stored for further retrospective studies. A técnica de imunoprecipitação ELIEDA (enzyme-linked-immuno-electro-diffusion-assay) foi avaliada para fins diagnósticos da esquistossomose mansoni em pacientes com baixa carga parasitária. Amostras de soros de 50 pacientes com exame de fezes positivo para S. mansoni (carga parasitária < 600 ovos por grama de fezes = opg) e 50 não esquistossomóticos (30 com outras afecções e 20 normais) foram estudadas. Em pacientes com carga parasitária acima de 200 opg, a sensibilidade da técnica de ELIEDA, tanto para anticorpos IgG como IgM, respectivamente 1,000 e 0,923, não diferiu da observada para outras reações sorológicas, como a de hemaglutinação (RHA), imunofluorescênca (RIF) e imunoeletrodifusão (IED). Entretanto, naqueles com baixa carga (< 100 opg), a ELIEDA-IgG mostrou resultados mais satisfatórios (0,821) que a ...