2008
DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00152-07
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Early Diagnosis of Leptospirosis by Immunoglobulin M Immunoblot Testing

Abstract: There is an urgent need for the development of serodiagnostic approaches with improved sensitivity for patients with acute leptospirosis. Immunoblots were performed on 188 sera collected from 74 patients with laboratory-confirmed early leptospiral infection to detect immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies to antigens pooled from 10 leptospiral strains prevalent in Thailand. Sera from patients with other febrile diseases served as controls. IgM reactivity to seven distinct antigens, with apparent molecular masses of… Show more

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“…As a result, there is an urgent need for an improved and accurate test for the diagnosis of leptospirosis. The search for conserved antigens that could be produced by recombinant technologies, thus avoiding the problems associated with whole-cell preparations, is under way (9,14,32,34,41,44). Nevertheless, difficulties associated with a low sensitivity of detection during the early stage of the disease, poor protein conservation among Leptospira strains, and cross-reactivity with serum from individuals with unrelated febrile illness have, to date, hampered the identification of the ideal antigen to be used for diagnosis.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a result, there is an urgent need for an improved and accurate test for the diagnosis of leptospirosis. The search for conserved antigens that could be produced by recombinant technologies, thus avoiding the problems associated with whole-cell preparations, is under way (9,14,32,34,41,44). Nevertheless, difficulties associated with a low sensitivity of detection during the early stage of the disease, poor protein conservation among Leptospira strains, and cross-reactivity with serum from individuals with unrelated febrile illness have, to date, hampered the identification of the ideal antigen to be used for diagnosis.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another possibility is that PCR false positives were contributing to the observed differences and this could have been clarified with successful isolation, histochemical staining or the visualization of the pathogen in tissue using transmission electron microscopy (Hamir et al, 2001;Szeredi and Haake, 2006;d'Andon et al, 2014). One PCR problem, which is also a problem for other methods used for screening animals or confirming human cases is lack of serovar recognition, which is the major advantage of the MAT method (Levett, 2004;Doungchawee et al, 2008;Saglam et al, 2008;Lilenbaum et al, 2009;Hartskeerl et al, 2011). Until serovar recognition by molecular methods becomes possible, the MAT using a large number of serovars will remain the preferred method for epidemiologically investigating animal leptospirosis.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Από τα δηλωμένα κλινικά κρούσματα στο ΚΕ.ΕΛ.Π.ΝΟ φαίνεται μια σαφής ετήσια αύξηση των περιστατικών κατά τη δεκαετία 1998-2008, με το συνολικό δηλωμένο αριθμό να ξεπερνά τα 250 άτομα (Μπουριέλ, προσωπική επαφή). Αυτή μπορεί μεν να οφείλεται στην παγκοσμίως παρατηρούμενη τάση αύξησης των δηλωμένων κρουσμάτων, λόγω πιθανώς αύξησης των ποσοστών μόλυνσης, αλλά είναι πιθα νότερα αποτέλεσμα του αυξημένου επιστημονικού ενδιαφέροντος, κυρίως λόγω ύπαρξης νέων και πιο εύχρηστων μεθόδων ορολογικής διερεύνησης της μόλυνσης (Sanders et al 1999, Plank et al 2000, LealCastellanos et al 2003, Doungchawee et al 2008, Pappas et al 2008). …”
Section: παθογενετικοι μηχανισμοί του γένους Leptospiraunclassified
“…Η έμμεση διάγνωση βασίζεται σε μεθόδους που ανιχνεύουν στον ορό αίματος τα αντισώματα είτε του μικροοργανισμού, χωρίς διάκριση ως προς τον μολύ-νοντα ορότυπο, όπως είναι οι μέθοδοι ELISA, ο έμμε σος ανοσοφθορισμός (Saglam et al 2008) και η εστια κή συγκόλληση (spot agglutination test) (Lilenbaum et al 2002, WHO 2002, Doungchawee et al 2008) είτε αντισώματα για κάθε ορότυπο, όπως είναι η δοκιμή μικροσκοπικής συγκόλλησης (Microscopie Agglutina tion Test-MAT) (Levett 2004, WHO 2006. Η τελευ ταία μέθοδος είναι και διεθνώς η μέθοδος αναφοράς.…”
Section: τα προβλήματα της μελέτης της λεπτοσπείρωσηςunclassified
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