Original scientific paper

Protein profi le and serodiagnosis of Taenia solium bladder worm infections in pigs

Hanumappa Dhanalakshmi ; Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Centre of Advanced Studies, Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Mitta Srinivasa Jagannath ; Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Centre of Advanced Studies, Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Placid Eugene D’Souza ; Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Centre of Advanced Studies, Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Abstract

A study on the protein profi le of the bladder worms of Taenia solium was conducted. Three antigens, including whole cyst antigen (WCA), scolex antigen (SA) and excretory secretory antigen (ESA), were evaluated and the presence of 18, 15 and 12 polypeptides was observed, respectively. The WCA, SA and ESA had 11, 10 and 9 polypeptides respectively as immunodominant when these were allowed to react with homologous hyper immune sera. When infected pig sera were allowed to react, 4 bands in WCA, 2 in SA and 4 in ESA were found to be highly reactive.

Keywords

Taenia solium; bladder worm; protein profile

Hrčak ID:

25267

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/25267

Publication date:

20.12.2005.

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