ABSTRACT
Una de las actividades que realizan los programas de control de hidatidosis causada por Echinococcus granulosus en la Republica Argentina es la busqueda de portadores asintomaticos de quistes hidatidicos entre la poblacion general que habita las areas de risco, mediante un ensayo inmunoenzimatico (EIE) con antigeno de liquido hidatidico total (EIE-ALHT) que selecciona los posibles portadores. En base a la experiencia recogida se ha observado que dependiendo de la prevalencia del area, entre el 10 por cento y el 30 por cento de las personas seleccionadas por el EIE con valores de densidad optica (DO * DO + 4S no presentan imagens compatibles con quistes hidatidicos. El proposito del estudio fue mejorar la especificidad de la prueba. Con ese fin, se evaluo la influencia de la modificacion de la oferta antigenica y el efecto de la absorcion de los anticuerpos anti-componentes sericos ovinos y anti-fosforilcolina de los sueros en estudios, 114 sueros no hidatidicos seleccionados por su alto nivel de reacciones cruzadas en EIE-ALHTy 118 sueros hidatidicos se estudiaron frente a 4 fracciones antigenicas de liquido hidatidico ovino. El EIE que empleo la fraccion antigenica S2B conjuntamente con la absorcion previa de los sueros (EIE-S2B/A) fue el sistema que mejor discrimino los sueros hidatidicos de los no hidatidicos
Subject(s)
Humans , Echinococcosis/diagnosis , Echinococcosis/epidemiology , Echinococcosis/immunology , Serologic Tests , Immunoenzyme Techniques/methods , Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology , Antigen-Antibody Reactions , Antigens/immunology , Argentina , Echinococcosis/surgery , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelABSTRACT
An enzymoimmunoassay (EIE) as a screening test to select potential asymptomatic cyst carriers among the general population of areas under risk is being used in programs for the control of hydatic diseases caused by Echinococcus granulosus in Argentina. The experience obtained up to date, applying this assay in population surveys, indicates that depending on the prevalence in the area 10% to 30% of the individuals selected did not show images compatible with hydatic cysts. The purpose of the present study was to improve the specificity of the test. To this purpose, the influence of the modification of the antigenic availability and the effect of the absorption from the serum samples of antibodies anti-normal ovine sera and anti-phosphorylcholine was evaluated. One hundred and fourteen non hydatic sera selected because of their high cross reactivity in EIE using the whole hydatid antigen (WHA) and 118 hydatid sera, were studied with four fractions of ovine hydatid cyst fluid. The EIE employing the S2B antigenic fraction with previous absorption of the sera (EIE-S2B/A) was the system that discriminated better hydatid sera from non hydatid sera with high levels of cross reactivity. The replacement of the EIE employing WHA by the EIE-S2B/A system, for the active search of asymptomatic cyst carriers in field conditions, is proposed. The four antigenic fractions were analyzed by double diffusion and SDS-PAGE. The S2B fraction revealed a high content of parasitic components of less than 30 Kd which probably includes antigen B and subunits or fragments of antigen 5.
