Detection of antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi in the South American opossum ( Didelphis marsupialis)

Stocks of Trypanosoma cruzi belonging to two different zymodemes, one usually associated with silvatic reservoir hosts and the other not normally found in wild reservoir hosts, were used as sources of diagnostic antigens in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the detection of antibodies to T. cru...

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Published inTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 29 - 32
Main Authors Luckins, A.G., Miles, M.A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 1982
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Animals
Antibodies - analysis
Brazil
Chagas Disease - immunology
Chagas Disease - veterinary
Didelphis marsupialis
disease reservoirs
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
enzymes
immunity
labeling techniques
Opossums - immunology
Opossums - parasitology
serodiagnosis
Trypanosoma cruzi
Trypanosoma cruzi - immunology
Brazil
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Summary:Stocks of Trypanosoma cruzi belonging to two different zymodemes, one usually associated with silvatic reservoir hosts and the other not normally found in wild reservoir hosts, were used as sources of diagnostic antigens in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the detection of antibodies to T. cruzi in Didelphis marsupialis. Both antigen preparations reacted with antibodies in sera from animals found to be infected by conventional parasitological techniques and also in sera from a proportion of the remaining animals in which it was not possible to detect trypanosomes.
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ISSN:0035-9203
1878-3503
DOI:10.1016/0035-9203(82)90010-4