Schistosoma mansoni circulating polysaccharide and protein antigens recognized by sheep antisera in patients with different clinical forms of schistosomiasis before and after treatment Antígenos polissacarídicos e proteicos circulantes de Schistosoma mansoni reconhecidos por antissoros de carneiro em pacientes com diferentes formas clínicas da esquistossomose antes e após o tratamento

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Julia Maria Costa-Cruz, Sumie Hoshino-Shimizu, Antonio Walter Ferreira, Mario E. Camargo, Thales de Brito, Luiz Caetano da Silva
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1994
• Subjects: Chronic schistosomiasis; Circulating antigens; Chemotherapy; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651994000400004; https://doaj.org/article/b855f5aa98fd4a6e9eb824d52f8aecdb

Two sheep antisera, one of which raised against polysaccharide (Po) and other against protein (Pt) components of Schistosoma mansoni adult worms, were assessed by ELISA for their ability to detect circulating parasite antigens in patients with different clinical forms of chronic schistosomiasis mansoni. The former antiserum detected parasite antigens in liver granulomata and the latter in renal glomeruli from schistosomiasis patients and mice experimentally infected with S. mansoni. In general, the levels and/or positivity rate of circulating antigens and specific IgG antibodies were significantly higher in patients with hepatointestinal (HI) and hepatosplenic (HS) forms than in mild intestinal (I) forms. An association between Po antigens and clinical features of the disease was observed, as the level of these antigens was low (137 ng/ml) as well as the positivity rate (7.9%) in patients with I forms; values that were intermediate (593 ng/ml and 33.3%) in those with HI forms, and high (1.563 ng/ml and 50.0%) in more severe HS forms. The Pt antigens were detected in the studied clinical forms not differing statistically but, the positivity rate was significantly higher in HS forms comparatively to I forms. The antisera studied revealed distinct circulating antigen profiles, and the prognostic value of Po and Pt antigens was suggested. Dois antissoros produzidos em carneiros, um dos quais contra a fração polissacarídica (Po) e outro contra componentes protéicos (Pt) de vermes adultos de Schistosoma mansoni, foram avaliados quanto ao seu desempenho na detecção de antígenos parasitários circulantes em pacientes com diferentes formas clínicas da esquistossomose mansônica cr��nica, através de um ensaio imunoenzimático, (ELISA). O primeiro antissoro revelava antígenos parasitários no granuloma hepático e o segundo, nos glomérulos renais de pacientes com esquistossomose mansônica, bem como em camundongos experimentalmente infectados pelo S. mansoni. Em geral, os níveis bem como a positividade, de antígenos circulantes ...