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Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Säo Paulo ; 38(1): 39-44, jan.-fev. 1996. ilus, tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-172650

ABSTRACT

A amebiase mantem sua importancia epidemiologica em paises subdesenvolvidos onde sua prevalencia a converteu na parasitose de maior morbidade e mortalidade apos malaria e esquistossomose. Em regra, tanto o diagnostico clinico como os levantamentos epidemiologicos assentam na identificacao microscopica de cistos e/ou trofozoitos em extractos fecais. Este procedimento requer pessoal muito bem treinado, e laborioso, e frequentemente fornece resultados contraditorios. Para obviar estas dificuldades, no presente trabalho montamos uma tecnica de diagnostico imunoenzimatico baseado na captura de um antigeno de 96 kDa presente nas fezes de individuos infectados pela E. hystolytica (COPROELISA-Eh). Triplicatas de 117 amostras fecais processadas pelo metodo de concentracao formol eter foram definidas como positivas ou negativas por tres microscopistas especialistas em amebiase...


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Humans , Amebiasis/epidemiology , Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/diagnosis , Amebiasis/immunology , Antibodies, Monoclonal , Antigens, Protozoan , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Sensitivity and Specificity
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Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Säo Paulo ; 37(3): 197-200, maio-jun. 1995. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-154358

ABSTRACT

Atualmente, tem se discutido muito a dualidade da Entamoeba histolystica. Na tentativa de contribuir no esclarecimento desta questao, investigamos a possibilidade de conversao de amebas avirulentas em virulentas, como tambem a possiblidade de aumento de virulencia de cepas virulentas seguido da associacao com bacterias. Para tal utilizamos 5 cepas de E. histolystica, 2 avirulentas e 3 virulentas. As amebas foram associadas com a s bacterias Escherichia coli 055 e 0115, demonstradas previamente como habeis para modificar o comportamento patogenico da E. histolystica...


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Amebiasis/diagnosis , Entamoeba histolytica/pathogenicity , Virulence , Amebiasis/complications
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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 88(4): 529-34, Oct.-Dec. 1993. tab, graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-148844

ABSTRACT

Three clones isolated from the Y strain of Trypanosoma cruzi--YP1, YP2 and YP3--were adapted to in vitro cultivation in VERO cells. The recovery of the parasites from the Y strain and clone YP3 was similar after 24 hr of contact with cells (3.2 per cent and 2.7 per cent , respectively) and much lower than the recovery of clones YP1 and YP2 (56.7 per cent and 60.0 per cent of inoculum, respectively). After five days incubation, the ratio Trypomastigotes/Amastigotes released into the supernatants was about 90/10 for clone YP1, YP3 and Y strain, and 50/50 for clone YP2. After nine days, the ratio was 62/38 for clone YP1, 97/3 for clone YP3, 81/19 for Y strain and 50/50 for clone YP2. The susceptibility of tissue culture derived trypomastigotes (TCT) to lysis in the presence of chronic chagasic human sera and human complement was assessed using Complement Mediated Lysis reaction (CML). Trypomastigotes from clone YP2 were consistently less susceptible to CML ( per cent lysis less than 20), than parasites from the other clones and Y strain. Parasites of clone YP3 had susceptibility to CML comparable to that of the Y strain (about 70 per cent ), while TCT of clone YP1 had intermediary susceptibility (40 per cent )


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Humans , Animals , In Vitro Techniques , Trypanosoma cruzi/immunology , Chronic Disease , Chagas Disease/immunology , Time Factors , Trypanosoma cruzi/growth & development , Vero Cells
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