Title
Laboratory diagnosis of neurocysticercosis (taenia solium)
Date Issued
01 September 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
O’Neal S.E.
Noh J.
Handali S.
Tsang V.C.W.
Martinez M.
Saavedra H.
Castro Y.
Muro C.
Vilchez P.
Nash T.E.
Friedland J.
NIAID
Cysticercosis Elimination Program
Publisher(s)
American Society for Microbiology
Abstract
Neurocysticercosis accounts for approximately 30% of all epilepsy cases in most developing countries. The immunodiagnosis of cysticercosis is complex and strongly influenced by the course of infection, the disease burden, the cyst location, and the immune response of the host. The main approach to immunodiagnosis should thus be to evaluate whether the serological results are consistent with the diagnosis suggested by imaging. Antibody detection is performed using lentil lectin-purified parasite antigens in an enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot format, while antigen detection uses a monoclonal antibody-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Promising new assay configurations have been developed for the detection of both antibody and antigen, including assays based on synthetic or recombinant antigens that may reduce costs and improve assay reproducibility and multiplex bead-based assays that may provide simultaneous quantitative results for several target antigens or antibodies.
Volume
56
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Neurociencias
Enfermedades infecciosas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85052492481
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
ISSN of the container
00951137
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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