Chagas disease: recombinant Trypanosoma cruzi antigens for serological diagnosis

JF Da Silveira, ES Umezawa, AO Luquetti - Trends in parasitology, 2001 - cell.com
cruzi recombinant antigens Trypanosoma cruzi antigen genes have been … by
screening genomic or cDNA expression libraries with sera from chagasic patients or T. …

In vivo detection of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens in hearts of patients with chronic Chagas' heart disease

G Belloti, EA Bocchi, AV De Moraes… - American heart …, 1996 - Elsevier
… The purpose of this study was to determine whether in vivo T. cruzi antigens could be detected
in hearts from patients with chronic Chagas' disease and to investigate whether a …

Comparison of genes encoding Trypanosoma cruzi antigens

ACC Frasch, JJ Cazzulo, L Åslund, U Pettersson - Parasitology Today, 1991 - cell.com
… These results suggest that the repetitive domains of these antigens are highly conserved …
fact that nearly all the sequences of T. cruzi antigens that have been reported are partial and …

Trypanosoma cruzi. Surface antigens of blood and culture forms.

N Nogueira, S Chaplan, JD Tydings… - The Journal of …, 1981 - rupress.org
The surface polypeptides of both cultured and blood forms of Trypanosoma cruzi were
iodinated by the glucose oxidase-lactoperoxidase technique. Blood-form trypomastigotes (BFT) …

Surface antigens of metacyclic trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi

N Yoshida - Infection and Immunity, 1983 - Am Soc Microbiol
… surface antigen makeup of metacyclictrypomastigote forms of strain G of Trypanosoma cruzi
cell surface, appeared as the main surface antigen of the G metacyclic trypomastigotes. In …

A superfamily of Trypanosoma cruzi surface antigens

O Campetella, D Sanchez, JJ Cazzulo, ACC Frasch - Parasitology Today, 1992 - cell.com
… , the agent of American trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease. The information obtained from
the cloning and sequencing of genes for T. cruzi antigens has shown that they share one major …

Analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens bound by specific antibodies and by antibodies to related trypanosomatids

FG Araujo - Infection and Immunity, 1986 - Am Soc Microbiol
… This has considerably stimulated research on the identification and isolation of T. cruzi
antigens that offer attractive possibilities for use in serological assays for the detection of T. …

DEMONSTRATION OF TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI ANTIGEN IN SERUM FROM PATIENTS WITH CHAGAS'DISEASE

FG Araujo, E Chiari, JCP Dias - The Lancet, 1981 - Elsevier
… Similarly, six sera positive for T. cruzi antigens in the ELISA test were absorbed with tissue
extracts to determine whether their reactivity was due to antibodies to tissue antigens which …

Trypanosoma cruzi expresses diverse repetitive protein antigens

DF Hoft, KS Kim, K Otsu, DR Moser, WJ Yost… - Infection and …, 1989 - Am Soc Microbiol
… We screened a Trypanosoma cruzi cDNA expression library with human and rabbit anti-T. …
cruzi antigen that had been affinity purified with monoclonal antibody 2D2, an antibody that …

Identification and synthesis of a major conserved antigenic epitope of Trypanosoma cruzi.

JM Burns Jr, WG Shreffler… - Proceedings of the …, 1992 - National Acad Sciences
… the cloning and expression of a T. cruzi antigen gene sequence encoding an immunodominant
protein with a repetitive epitope.§ This gene sequence is conserved among diverse T. …