Title
Development of indirect sandwich ELISA for determination of excretory-secretory antigens of Fasciola hepatica
Other title
[Desarrollo de ELISA sándwich indirecto para la determinación de antígenos de excreción-secreción de Fasciola hepatica]
Date Issued
01 April 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Fac. Of Biological Sci.
Abstract
Fasciolosis is a cosmopolitan parasitosis medical-veterinary importance caused by Fasciola hepatica, which affects sheep, goats and cattle; and it affects man accidentally causing an epidemic-endemic infection difficult to diagnose. The aim was to develop an indirect sandwich ELISA with 3 antibodies for detecting excretory-secretory antigens of Fasciola hepatica (ESFh). For the development of indirect sandwich ELISA were used, as capture antibody, mouse polyclonal antibodies anti ESFh and polyclonal antibodies rabbit anti-ESFh as detection antibody, at the concentrations of 10 and 5 μg/mL respectively. The conjugate used was mouse monoclonal anti-total immunoglobulins rabbit linked to peroxidase (1/1000). Were analized 31 sheep fecal samples, and the results were compared with those obtained by direct coproparasitological examination (DC) and counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIEP). The detection limit obtained for indirect sandwich ELISA was 100 ng/mL. The test had a 100% sensitivity, 96.6% specificity, positive and negative predictive values of 50% and 96.6% respectively, in relation to DC test. Comparing with CIEP the specificity obtained for indirect sandwich ELISA was 93.5% and a negative predictive value of 100%. We concluded that indirect sandwich ELISA designed is able to detect metabolic antigens in ovine feces samples and can be used for Fasciola hepatica diagnosis.
Start page
47
End page
52
Volume
23
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84971595365
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
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