Bibliographic citations
Tinoco, Y., (2004). Uso del ELISA de captura de antígeno en el monitoreo de porcinos infectados naturalmente con Cysticercus cellulosae y tratados con oxfendazol [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/2268
Tinoco, Y., Uso del ELISA de captura de antígeno en el monitoreo de porcinos infectados naturalmente con Cysticercus cellulosae y tratados con oxfendazol [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/2268
@misc{renati/488008,
title = "Uso del ELISA de captura de antígeno en el monitoreo de porcinos infectados naturalmente con Cysticercus cellulosae y tratados con oxfendazol",
author = "Tinoco Figueroa, Yeny Odaly",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2004"
}
-- Taenia solium cysticercosis is a serious public health problem in developing countries. At the present time it is possible to treat this disease using antiparasitic drugs, but once the treatment is administered, monitoring the disease status of animals is limited by the high cost of radiological techniques. Currently available diagnostic assays are not useful in this respect because they detect the presence of antibodies against the C. cellulosae, which are still in circulation after the cysts have died. The objective of the present study was to demonstrate the utility of a monoclonal antibody-based capture ELISA (Ag-ELISA) in the monitoring of the persistence of circulating parasite antigens in animals treated for cysticercosis. Serum samples of six pigs naturally infected with cysticercosis and treated with oxfendazol were evaluated both before and after treatment. Records of necropsies and evagination tests were also used. It was found that the time for antigen titres to fall to less than the cut off ELISA optical density (OD) occurred on day 59 post-treatment and the mean survival time of C. cellulosae antigens as determined by Kaplan Meier analysis was 71.5 (59.25–83.75) days. It was also found that animals with a small number of cysts had small quantities of parasite antigen. This result demonstrated that this Ag–ELISA would allow the quantitative monitoring of the persistence of circulating antigens of C.cellulosae in animals infected naturally and treated with an antiparasitic drug. Finally, the use of this assay is recommended in the monitoring of human cysticercosis treatment.
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